Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /

Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice / edited by Debra A. Reid. - first edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 196 pages) : illustrations. - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 112 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Early organizing in the search for equality: African American conventions in late nineteenth-century Texas / Crucial decade for Texas labor: railway union struggles, 1886-1896 / Racism and sexism in rural Texas: the contested nature of progressive reform, 1870s-1910s / Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Religious moderates and race: the Texas Christian Life Commission and the call for racial reconciliation, 1954-1968 / Elusive unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and civil rights in Houston / Chicanismo and the flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s agitation and litigation by Mexican American youth in Texas / Alwyn Barr -- George N. Green -- Debra A. Reid -- James Seymour -- Patricia E. Gower -- David K. Chrisman -- Brian D. Behnken -- Steven Harmon Wilson.



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Civil rights movements--History--Texas--19th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Texas--20th century.
Civil rights--History--Texas--19th century.
Civil rights--History--Texas--20th century.
Minorities--Civil rights--History--Texas--19th century.
Minorities--Civil rights--History--Texas--20th century.
Citizenship--History--Texas--19th century.
Citizenship--History--Texas--20th century.


Electronic Books.

F395 / .S445 2009