ABSTRACT
In 1960, the state of Louisiana used a newly passed “suitable home” provision to strike 23,000 children and their mothers from the rolls of the state's ADC program. The governor referred to these mothers as “a bunch of prostitutes.” While he and other officials insisted the new law aimed only to save the morals of the children, the National Urban League revealed how the suitable home provision was part and parcel of a broader agenda for racial segregation and discrimination.
