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The Texas Civil Rights Project : how we built a social justice movement / Jim Harrington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrington, James C., 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harrington, James C., 1946-.
- Harrington, James C.
- Texas Civil Rights Project.
- Civil rights--Texas--History.
- Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements--Texas--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- Human rights--Texas--History.
- Human rights.
- Legal assistance to the poor--Texas--History.
- Legal assistance to the poor.
- Community organization--Texas--History.
- Community organization.
- Civil rights lawyers--Texas--Biography.
- Civil rights lawyers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A memoir and history from the founder of an important Texas civil rights organization"-- Provided by publisher.
- Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice.
- Contents:
- The early years : from Michigan's strawberry fields to South Texas
- South Texas in the 1960s and 1970s : upheaval, resistance, and the origin of the South Texas Project
- Police brutality, act I: McAllen's C-Shift Animals
- Texas Grand Jury reform : sidelining the good old boy
- Farmworkers and colonias on the move
- The Texas ERA vomes to the rescue of farmworkers and minority voters
- Untethering from the Texas Civil Liberties Union : birth of the Texas Civil Rights Project
- Convincing Texas businesses and government to respect people with disabilities
- The people push back : free speech and assembly
- Police brutality, act II : the more cops change
- Violence against women and sexual bullying
- Privacy : AIDS, lie detectors, and the case of the purloined baby blood
- Daring to sue the Supreme Court of Texas on behalf of low-income Texans
- Continuing the good fight : other fronts
- International human rights : solidarity
- What made TCRP unique?
- Final thoughts : keeping the marathon going.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Harrington, James C., 1946- Texas Civil Rights Project
- ISBN:
- 1-4773-3235-9
- 1-4773-3236-7
- OCLC:
- 1514459417
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