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Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands : Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism / Will Guzmán.

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Guzmán, Will [Author]

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text

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online resource

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E185 .C585 2015

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Contents:

Introduction : tale of a doctor, history of a land -- Marshall, Texas, 1883-1909 -- The lure of El Paso, 1910-1919 -- Bullets and ropes: wading in bloody waters, 1919-1924 -- Nixon, the NAACP, and the courts, 1924-1934 -- Optimism and rejection, 1925-1962 -- Coda.

Subject: In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzmán delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzmán also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	E185.97.58 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn909028083

Includes bibliographies and index.

Lawrence A. Nixon chronology -- Introduction : tale of a doctor, history of a land -- Marshall, Texas, 1883-1909 -- The lure of El Paso, 1910-1919 -- Bullets and ropes: wading in bloody waters, 1919-1924 -- Nixon, the NAACP, and the courts, 1924-1934 -- Optimism and rejection, 1925-1962 -- Coda.

In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzmán delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzmán also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement.

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