Seeking inalienable rights : Texans and their quests for justice / edited by Debra A. Reid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reid, Debra Ann, 1960-

Series:

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 112.

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 112

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--Texas--History--19th century.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights movements--Texas--History--20th century.

Civil rights--Texas--History--19th century.

Civil rights.

Civil rights--Texas--History--20th century.

Minorities--Civil rights--Texas--History--19th century.

Minorities.

Minorities--Civil rights--Texas--History--20th century.

Citizenship.

History.

Race relations.

Minorities--Civil rights.

Texas--Race relations--History--19th century.

Texas.

Texas--Race relations--History--20th century.

Citizenship--Texas--History--19th century.

Citizenship--Texas--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2009]

Summary:

Seeking Inalienable Rights explores how specific groups of Texans fought to be included as part of that constitutional "we" by pursuing their basic rights, from the post-Civil War period to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Reflecting the multiracial character of Texas history, this collection of original essays addresses the complex nature of rights activism in the state. Contributors show how conservatives often protected their rights by failing to expand rights for others, and how liberals responded to such restrictions by pursuing their own dreams of equality. Taken together, these articles indicate the differences of opinion about access to inalienable rights, as well as specific rights of citizenship

Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history

Contents:

Early organizing in the search for equality: African American conventions in late nineteenth-century Texas / Alwyn Barr

Crucial decade for Texas labor: railway union struggles, 1886-1896 / George N. Green

Racism and sexism in rural Texas: the contested nature of progressive reform, 1870s-1910s / Debra A. Reid

Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour

Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. Gower

Religious moderates and race: the Texas Christian Life Commission and the call for racial reconciliation, 1954-1968 / David K. Chrisman

Elusive unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and civil rights in Houston / Brian D. Behnken

Chicanismo and the flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s agitation and litigation by Mexican American youth in Texas / Steven Harmon Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603441186

1603441182

9781603441230

1603441239

OCLC:

288932805

Publisher Number:

99935758179