Seeking inalienable rights : Texans and their quests for justice
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Seeking inalienable rights : Texans and their quests for justice
（The Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, no. 112）
Texas A&M University Press, c2009
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Early organizing in the search for equality: African American conventions in late nineteenth-century Texas / Alwyn Barr
- Crucial decade for Texas labor: railway union struggles, 1886-1896 / George N. Green
- Racism and sexism in rural Texas: the contested nature of progressive reform, 1870s-1910s / Debra A. Reid
- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour
- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. Gower
- Religious moderates and race: the Texas Christian Life Commission and the call for racial reconciliation, 1954-1968 / David K. Chrisman
- Elusive unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and civil rights in Houston / Brian D. Behnken
- Chicanismo and the flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s agitation and litigation by Mexican American youth in Texas / Steven Harmon Wilson
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Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book: ""Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas""-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University ""Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886-1896""-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington ""Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s-1910s"" -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University ""Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I""-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair ""Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio""-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word ""Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954-1968""-David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor ""Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston""-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University ""Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas""-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.
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