Blue Texas The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era / Max Krochmal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krochmal, Max, author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Civil rights movements.

Political participation--Texas--History--20th century.

Political participation.

Mexican Americans--Political activity--Texas.

Mexican Americans.

African Americans--Political activity--Texas--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Minorities--Political activity--Texas--History--20th century.

Minorities.

Electoral coalitions--Texas--History--20th century.

Electoral coalitions.

Texas--Politics and government--20th century.

Texas.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (555 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

This work is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-20th century hotbed of community organising, liberal politics and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American and white labour and community activists came together to empower the state's marginalised minorities.

Contents:

People are power: the mass uprising and the maverick coalition

Segregation is an economic problem: black workers win the right to vote

Forcing us together in self-defense: the Cold War, the black vote and the liberal movement

Minorities combine: G. J. Sutton, Albert Peña, and the Democrats of Texas

Unions are needed so desperately here: the rebirth of the labor movement and the seeds of the Bexar coalition

We shall be heard: rights in black and brown from the sit-ins to Viva Kennedy

Trying to reach substantially unanimous agreement on limited political targets: the "Latin vote" and the first democratic coalition

Separating the wheat from the chaff: intra-racial divides beget inter-racial unity

They'll never separate us again: the multiracial democratic coalition on the march

New power for the Texas minorities: winning the battles, losing the war.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908476-4-5

979-88-908476-5-2

1-4696-2676-4

1-4696-2803-1

OCLC:

960749253