Fighting their own battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas /

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Behnken explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizational differences that all worked to separate blacks' and Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles in Texas.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Behnken, Brian D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > Texas > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Texas > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Texas > History > 20th century.
School integration > Texas > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Relations with Mexican Americans > History > 20th century.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Droits > Texas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Texas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Texas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Déségrégation en éducation > Texas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Relations with Mexican Americans
Civil rights movements
Ethnic relations
Mexican Americans > Civil rights
Race relations
School integration
Texas > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Texas > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Texas > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Texas > Relations interethniques > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Texas
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Advancing the cause of democracy : the origins of protest in the long civil rights movement
  • Sleeping on another man's wounds : the battle for integrated schools in the 1950s
  • Nothing but victory can stop us : direct action and political action in the early 1960s
  • Venceremos : the evolution of civil rights in the mid-1960s
  • Am I my brother's keeper? : ecumenical activism in the Lone Star State
  • The day of nonviolence is past : the era of Brown power and Black power in Texas
  • Pawns, puppets, and scapegoats : school desegregation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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