Fighting their own battles
Subtitle: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas
By: Brian D. Behnken
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780807834787
Subjects: Race relations; Civil rights; Ethnic relations; School integration; Civil rights movements; Mexican Americans; Relations with Mexican Americans; African Americans; History
Description: Behnken examines the history of both the African American and Mexican American civil rights struggles in Texas, exploring the racial prejudices, cultural dissimilarities, class tensions, organizational differences, and geographical distance that all worked to create two separate civil rights movements.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Advancing the cause of democracy : the origins of protest in the long civil rights movement; title: Sleeping on another man's wounds : the battle for integrated schools in the 1950s; title: Nothing but victory can stop us : direct action and political action in the early 1960s; title: Venceremos : the evolution of civil rights in the mid-1960s; title: Am I my brother's keeper? : ecumenical activism in the Lone Star State; title: The day of nonviolence is past : the era of Brown power and Black power in Texas; title: Pawns, puppets, and ccapegoats : school desegregation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.