Title: A southern family in white & Black
Description: The complex issues of race and politics in nineteenth-century Texas may be nowhere more dramatically embodied than in three generations of the family of Norris Wright Cuney, mulatto labor and political leader. Douglas Hales explores the birthright Cuney received from his white plantation-owner father, Philip Cuney, and the way his heritage played out in the life of his daughter, Maud Cuney-Hare.
Subjects: Politics and government, Race relations, Racially mixed people, African Americans, Biography, African American politicians, Racially mixed families, Cuney, norris wright, 1846-1899, African americans, biography, Texas, politics and government, Texas, biography, Austin (tex.)
Places: Austin County (Tex.), Texas, United States
People: Cooney family, Maud Cuney-Hare (1874-1936), Norris Wright Cuney (1846-1898), Philip Minor Cuney (b. 1807)
Time periods: 1865-1950