Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice
Language: English
Published by Texas A&M University Press, 2009
Series: Book 31 of 51 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
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Reid, Debra A. (Editor)., Texas A&M University Press, 2009, c2009, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine (brand new), 196 pp with index, B&W illus., 8vo, ISBN: 9781603441230, 'Explores how specific groups of Texans fought to pursue their basic rights, from the post-Civil War period to the civil rights movement of the 1960s', Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Number 112.
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- Title
- Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice
- Author
- Reid, Debra A. (Editor)
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1603441239
- ISBN 13
- 9781603441230
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 31 of 51: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
- Seller catalogs
- History, Law, Sociology
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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