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Seeking Inalienable Rights : Texans and Their Quests for Justice, PDF eBook

Seeking Inalienable Rights : Texans and Their Quests for Justice PDF

Edited by Debra A. Reid

Part of the Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University series

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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, 18861896-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington

Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s1910s -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, 19541968-David K. Chrisman, University ofMary 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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