
Fighting Their Own Battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas.
Title:
Fighting Their Own Battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas.
Author:
Behnken, Brian D.
ISBN:
9780807877876
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (368 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Advancing the Cause of Democracy: The Origins of Protest in the Long Civil Rights Movement -- 2 Sleeping on Another Man's Wounds: The Battle for Integrated Schools in the 1950s -- 3 Nothing but Victory Can Stop Us: Direct Action and Political Action in the Early 1960s -- 4 Venceremos: The Evolution of Civil Rights in the Mid-1960s -- 5 Am I My Brother's Keeper?: Ecumenical Activism in the Lone Star State -- 6 The Day of Nonviolence Is Past: The Era of Brown Power and Black Power in Texas -- 7 Pawns, Puppets, and Scapegoats: School Desegregation in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Abstract:
Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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