Westgate, Michael

Michael Westgate has a unique lens through which to document the work of Gale Cincotta. Cincotta was a genius in identifying the national problem of disinvestment in poor communities. She gathered headlines as she brought activist organizations nationwide to march on Washington under the banner of the National People's Action (NPA). Washington's leading politicians learned to fear, respect, and sometimes loathe Cincotta. But she also needed a program that worked. Westgate, a staff member at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, became her ally in Washington, even accepting her collect phone calls