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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guzmán, Will (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nixon, Lawrence A., > 1884-1966.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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