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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reid, Debra A., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2009.
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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early organizing in the search for equality: African American conventions in late nineteenth-century Texas / Alwyn Barr
  • Crucial decade for Texas labor: railway union struggles, 1886-1896 / George N. Green
  • Racism and sexism in rural Texas: the contested nature of progressive reform, 1870s-1910s / Debra A. Reid
  • Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour
  • Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. Gower
  • Religious moderates and race: the Texas Christian Life Commission and the call for racial reconciliation, 1954-1968 / David K. Chrisman
  • Elusive unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and civil rights in Houston / Brian D. Behnken
  • Chicanismo and the flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s agitation and litigation by Mexican American youth in Texas / Steven Harmon Wilson.