Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz ; foreword by Quintard Taylor.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Glasrud, Bruce A. (Editor)
Wintz, Cary D., 1943- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
Series:Race and culture in the American West ; Volume 16.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
African Americans > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
West (U.S.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Race relations.
West United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxi, 296 pages : maps.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue: Before Brown in the West / by Jean Van Delinder
  • Part I: The Far West
  • The Pacific Northwest / by Kevin A. Leonard
  • The Struggle on Multiple Planes: California's Long Civil Rights Movement / by Herbert G. Ruffin II
  • The Civil Rights Movement in Nevada / by Elmer R. Rusco
  • Part II. The Mountain States and Desert Southwest
  • Breaking Racial Barriers: Civil Rights Movements in Montana and Wyoming / by Kenneth G. Robison
  • 5. The Modern Civil Rights Movement in Colorado / by George H. Junne Jr.
  • Civil Rights in Utah: The Mormon Way / by J. Herschel Barnhill
  • Blacks and Whites Together: Interracial Leadership in the Phoenix, Arizona Civil Rights Movement / by Mary S. Melcher
  • The Modern Civil Rights Movement in New Mexico / by George M. Cooper
  • Part III. The Upper Midwest
  • Civil Rights in the Dakotas / by Betti VanEpps-Taylor
  • The Modern Civil Rights Movement in Iowa and Minnesota / by Donald H. Strasser and Melodie Andrews
  • Challenging the Color Line in Kansas and Nebraska: The Revolution at a Regional Nexus / James N. Leiker
  • Part IV: The South and the West Collide
  • Conceived in Segregation and Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men Were Not Created Equal: Oklahoma the Last Southern State / by Paul Finkelman
  • The Civil Rights Movement in Texas / by Alwyn Barr
  • Epilogue: Western Civil Rights Since 1970 / by Albert S. Broussard.