Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by W. Marvin Dulaney
  • Preface to the new edition
  • Introduction
  • The toils
  • The making of biographical profiles
  • The Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869
  • The Reconstruction legislature
  • Blacks at the crossroad 1872-1875
  • The post-Reconstruction legislatures
  • The snares
  • White over black in party conventions
  • A thorn in the side
  • Miscalculation or manipulation
  • Fusion or fission
  • The danger
  • Methods of removal
  • Rejection, reduction, retrenchment
  • The personalities
  • Neither all good nor all bad
  • A preview
  • Matthew Gaines: the militant
  • George T. Ruby: the party loyalist
  • Richard Allen: the opportunist
  • Robert Lloyd Smith: the accommodationist
  • Norris Wright Cuney: the climber of sorts
  • Postscript
  • Appendix A: Roster of black legislators of Texas
  • Appendix B: Roster of black legislators' committee assignments
  • Appendix C: Black legislators who were delegates at Republican national conventions
  • Appendix D: Summary of background of Texas black politicians, 1868-1890
  • Appendix E: Twentieth century black legislators
  • Appendix G: A thirty year comparison of the 19th and 20th century legislators
  • Appendix H: Correspondence of a black lawmaker.