Behnken, Brian D.

Fighting their own battles Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / [electronic resource] : Brian D. Behnken. - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. - xix, 347 p. : ill.

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.


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Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--Texas--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Texas--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Texas--20th century.
School integration--History--Texas--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.

F395.M5 / B56 2011eb

305.8009764