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

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Behnken, Brian D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Subjects:
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.
Texas > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Texas > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780807877876
0807877875
9781469603193
1469603195
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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