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Fair ways : how six black golfers won civil rights in Beaumont, Texas /

In the summer of 1955, six African American golfers in Beaumont, Texas, began attacking the Jim Crow caste system when they filed a federal lawsuit for the right to play the municipal golf course. The golfers and their African American lawyers went to federal court and asked a conservative white Rep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robertson, Robert J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 103.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beaumont, Texas, 1955
  • Black Beaumont
  • Joe Doakes in Beaumont
  • White golf, black golf
  • Crusading lawyers
  • Lawyer Lamar Cecil
  • Republican Lamar Cecil
  • Judge Lamar Cecil.