Seeking inalienable rights : Texans and their quests for justice /
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 Equa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ;
no. 112. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 196 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781603443630 1603443630 |