The Mayor of Shantytown: The Life of Father James Renshaw Cox Paperback - 2019
by Richard Gazarik
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Father James R. Cox became the voice of Pittsburgh's poor and jobless during the worst years of the Great Depression. Long lines of needy people were showing up daily at St. Patrick's Church in the city's historic Strip District but Cox turned no one away. He served more than two million meals to the hungry and was the "mayor" of a shantytown of homeless men.
In 1932, Cox led one of the first mass marches on Washington, D.C., confronting President Herbert Hoover in a face-to-face White House meeting. He later ran for president himself on the Jobless Party ticket--a quixotic campaign that ended in the deserts of New Mexico. Father Cox's reputation as a humanitarian was ruined after he barely escaped a mail fraud conviction for running a rigged fundraising contest.
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- Title The Mayor of Shantytown: The Life of Father James Renshaw Cox
- Author Richard Gazarik
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 215
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
- Date 2019-02-20
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781476673394 / 147667339X
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.35 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Library of Congress subjects Social reformers - United States, Catholic Church - United States - Clergy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019002640
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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