Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares : Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pitre, Merline, 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
Edition:Texas A & M University Press edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Politics and government.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African American politicians.
African American leadership.
Leadership noir americain > Texas.
Noirs americains > Texas > Politique et gouvernement.
Hommes politiques noirs americains > Texas > Biographies.
African American leadership > Texas.
African Americans > Texas > Politics and government.
African American politicians > Texas > Biography.
Texas.
Texas > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1950.
Texas > Relations raciales.
Texas > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Texas > Race relations.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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