Seeking inalienable rights
Subtitle: Texans and their quests for justice
By: edited by Debra A. Reid.
Contributors: Reid, Debra Ann, 1960-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University -- no. 112; Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University -- no. 112.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781603441186; 9781603441230
Subjects: Civil rights movements -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Civil rights movements -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Minorities -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Minorities -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Citizenship -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Citizenship -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century; Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early organizing in the search for equality: African American conventions in late nineteenth-century Texas / Alwyn Barr; title: Crucial decade for Texas labor: railway union struggles, 1886-1896 / George N. Green; title: Racism and sexism in rural Texas: the contested nature of progressive reform, 1870s-1910s / Debra A. Reid; title: Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour; title: Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. Gower; title: Religious moderates and race: the Texas Christian Life Commission and the call for racial reconciliation, 1954-1968 / David K. Chrisman; title: Elusive unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and civil rights in Houston / Brian D. Behnken; title: Chicanismo and the flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s agitation and litigation by Mexican American youth in Texas / Steven Harmon Wilson.