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

Main Author: Behnken, Brian D.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10460907
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 ccapegoats : school desegregation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.