Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice: Texans and Their Quests for Justice Volume 112 (Centennial Series of the Association ... Students, Texas A&m University, Band 112) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603441239 ISBN 13: 9781603441230

Verlag: TEXAS A & M UNIV PR, 2009

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Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans’ quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment.

 

Inside This Book:

 

"Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas"-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University   

"Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886–1896"-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington

"Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s–1910s" -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University          

"Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I"-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair     

"Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio"-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word

"Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954–1968"-David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor  

"Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston"-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University         

"Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas"-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College
 

This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.
 

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

DEBRA A. REID is associate professor of history at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Her Ph.D. is from Texas A&M University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TEXAS A & M UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1603441239
• ISBN 13: 9781603441230
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
• Herausgeber: Reid Debra A.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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