Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands : Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism /

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In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guzmán, Will (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Temas:
Nixon, Lawrence A., > 1883-1966.
African Americans > Texas > El Paso > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Texas > El Paso > History.
African Americans > Segregation > Texas > El Paso > History.
African Americans > Suffrage > Texas.
Noirs américains > Texas > El Paso > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Droits > Texas > El Paso > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Texas > El Paso > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > Texas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African American physicians.
African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Suffrage.
Texas.
Texas > El Paso.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lawrence A. Nixon chronology
  • Introduction : tale of a doctor, history of a land
  • Marshall, Texas, 1883-1909
  • The lure of El Paso, 1910-1919
  • Bullets and ropes: wading in bloody waters, 1919-1924
  • Nixon, the NAACP, and the courts, 1924-1934
  • Optimism and rejection, 1925-1962
  • Coda.

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