Black rebellion triggered mandatory work requirements for welfare recipients

Evidence

A band of shrewd Goldwater politicians proclaimed that the “lazy” rioters demonstrated the need to reduce the welfare rolls and impose work requirements. But welfare mothers resisted. In September, the newly formed National Welfare Rights Association (NWRO) staged a sit-in in the chambers of the Senate Finance Committee, causing Louisiana senator Russell Long to blast the association as “Black Brood Mares, Inc.” Congress still passed the first mandatory work requirement for welfare recipients. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1002

Categorization

• XREF: A sharp example of policy responding to rebellion with punitive racialized control, continuing the ‘welfare queen’ genealogy Kendi traces. — connects to: Black elite status depended on the welfare of the whole black population