Civil rights in black and brown : histories of resistance and struggle in Texas / edited by Max Krochmal and J. Todd Moye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moye, J. Todd, editor.

Krochmal, Max, editor.

Series:

Jess and Betty Jo Hay series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American political activists--Texas--Interviews.

Chicano movement--Texas--History.

Civil rights movements--Texas--History.

Civil rights workers--Texas--Interviews.

Mexican American political activists--Texas--Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [2021]

Summary:

Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far from the gaze of the national media, African American and Mexican American activists combated the twin caste systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow. These insurgents worked chiefly within their own racial groups, yet they also looked to each other for guidance and, at times, came together in solidarity. The movements sought more than integration and access: they demanded power and justice. Civil Rights in Black and Brown draws on more than 500 oral history interviews newly collected across Texas, from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods and everywhere in between. The testimonies speak in detail to the structure of racism in small towns and huge metropolises—both the everyday grind of segregation and the haunting acts of racial violence that upheld Texas’s state-sanctioned systems of white supremacy. Through their memories of resistance and revolution, the activists reveal previously undocumented struggles for equity, as well as the links Black and Chicanx organizers forged in their efforts to achieve self-determination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Introduction. Lone Star Civil Rights: Histories, Memories, and Legacies

PART I. Violence and Resistance: African Americans in East Texas

1. Ignored News and Forgotten History: The 1963 Prairie View Student Movement

2. "Plumb Chaos": Segregation and Integration in Deep East Texas

3. "Something Was Lost": Segregation, Integration, and Black Memory in the Golden Triangle

4. Texas Time: Racial Violence, Place Making, and Remembering as Resistance in Montgomery County

PART II. Survival and Self-Determination: Chicano/a Struggles in South and West Texas

5. The South-by- Southwest Borderlands' Chicana/o Uprising: The Brown Berets, Black and Brown Alliances, and the Fight against Police Brutality in West Texas

6. The Long Shadow of Héctor P. García in Corpus Christi

7. "It Was Us against Us": The Pharr Police Riot of 1971 and the People's Uprising against El Jefe Político

8. The 1970 Uvalde School Walkout

9. "A Totality of Our Well-Being": The Creation and Evolution of the Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe in South El Paso

PART III. Coalitions and Control: Black and Brown Liberation Struggles in Metropolitan Texas

10. Contesting White Supremacy in Tarrant County

11. Civil Rights in the "City of Hate": Black and Brown Organizing against Police Brutality in Dallas

12. Self-Determined Educational Spaces: Forging Race and Gender Power in Houston

13. From Police Brutality to the "United Peoples Party": San Antonio's Hybrid SNCC Chapter, the Chicano/a Movement, and Political Change

14. "You Either Support Democracy or You Don't": Structural Racism, Segregation, and the Struggle to Bring Single-Member Districts to Austin

PART IV. Inside the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project

15. Recovering, Interpreting, and Disseminating the Hidden Histories of Civil Rights in Texas

Appendix: Selected Interview Transcripts

Acknowledgments

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Krochmal, Max Civil Rights in Black and Brown

ISBN:

9781477323809

1477323805