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Seeking inalienable rights : Texans and their quests for justice / edited by Debra A. Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- 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--Texas--History--19th century.
- Citizenship.
- Citizenship--Texas--History--20th century.
- Texas--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Texas.
- Texas--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In essays, scholars demonstrate 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..
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-363-0
- 1-299-05368-8
- OCLC:
- 680622461
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