Seeking inalienable rights

Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice / [electronic resource] : edited by Debra A. Reid. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009. - xxiii, 196 p. : ill. - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 112 . - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 112. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early organizing in the search for equality: African American conventions in late nineteenth-century Texas / Alwyn Barr -- Crucial decade for Texas labor: railway union struggles, 1886-1896 / George N. Green -- Racism and sexism in rural Texas: the contested nature of progressive reform, 1870s-1910s / Debra A. Reid -- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour -- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. Gower -- Religious moderates and race: the Texas Christian Life Commission and the call for racial reconciliation, 1954-1968 / David K. Chrisman -- Elusive unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and civil rights in Houston / Brian D. Behnken -- Chicanismo and the flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s agitation and litigation by Mexican American youth in Texas / Steven Harmon Wilson.


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