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Through many dangers, toils, and snares : the Black leadership of Texas, 1868-1900 / Merline Pitre.
LIBRA - Rare E185.93.T4 P57 1985 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pitre, Merline, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American leadership--Texas.
- African American leadership.
- African Americans--Texas--Politics and government.
- African Americans.
- African American politicians--Texas--Biography.
- African American politicians.
- Race relations.
- Politics and government.
- Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Texas.
- Texas--Race relations.
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, Texas : Eakin Press, 1985.
- Contents:
- Part One. The Toils: The Making of Biographical and Political Profiles. Introduction. 1. The Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869; 2. The Reconstruction Legislature; 3. Blacks at the Crossroad 1872-1875; 4. The Post-Reconstruction Legislature
- Part Two. The Snares: White Over Black in Party Conventions. 6. A Thorn in the Side; 6. Miscalculation or Manipulation; 7. Fusion or Fission
- Part Three. The Dangers: Methods of Removal. 8. Rejection, Reduction, Retrenchment
- Part Four. The Personalities: Neither All Good Nor All Bad Men. A Preview: 9. Matthew Gaines: The Militant; 10. George T. Ruby: The Party Loyalist; 11. Richard Allen: The Opportunist; 12. Robert L. Smith: The Accommodationist; 13. Norris W. Cuney: The Climber of Sorts
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pitre, Merline, 1943- Through many dangers, toils, and snares.
- ISBN:
- 0890155240 :
- 9780890155240
- OCLC:
- 12286061
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