Fighting their own battles [electronic resource] : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / Brian D. Behnken.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.Description: xix, 347 p. : illSubject(s): - 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
- 305.8009764 22
- F395.M5 B56 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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