Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables
  • Map of Central Texas
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Betwixt Old Ways and New Freedoms: African Americans in Central Texas
  • Part I. Slavery and Its Aftermath; 1. Livestock and Slavery in North Central Texas: A View from Stephens County; 2. Slavery on the Frontier: The Peculiar Institution in Central Texas; 3. The Transition from Slave Potter to Free Potter: The Wilson Potteries of Guadalupe County; 4. Black Political Power and Criminal Justice: Washington County, 1868-1884; 5. The African American Exodus from Comanche County
  • Part II. In Pursuit of Freedom; 6. Black Trail Drivers of Caldwell County; 7. Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: A Coryell County Freedom Colony; 8. The African American Military Experience in Central Texas, 1863-1900; 9. William Madison McDonald: Business and Fraternal Leader; 10. The "Waco Horror": The Lynching of Jesse Washington
  • Part III. Striving for Success and Civil Rights; 11. The Life and Work of Dr. Beadie Eugene Conner: An African American Physician in Jim Crow Texas; 12. Aboard the Wrong Ship in the Right Books: Doris Miller and Historical Accuracy; 13. To Leave or Not to Leave?: The "Boomerang Migration" of Lillian B. Horace (1880-1965); 14. Sepia Record as a Forum for Negotiating Women's Roles; 15. Reluctance versus Reality: The Desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-1956; 16. Texas Voices: The 1963 Civil Rights March on Austin; Selected Bibliography; Index.