African Americans in central Texas history : from slavery to civil rights / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Glasrud, Bruce A. (Editor)
Liles, Debbie M. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Texas > History.
African Americans > Texas > Biography.
Civil rights > Texas > History.
Slavery > Texas > History.
Racism > Texas > History.
African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights.
Racism.
Slavery.
Texas.
Bürgerrecht.
Sklaverei.
Schwarze.
Geschichte.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Physical Description:x, 316 pages : map ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Betwixt old ways and new freedoms: African Americans in central Texas / Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles
  • Slavery and its aftermath
  • Livestock and slavery in north central Texas: a view from Stephens County / Deborah M. Liles
  • Slavery on the frontier: the peculiar institution in central Texas / William Dean Carrigan
  • The transition from slave potter to free potter: the Wilson potteries of Guadalupe County / E. Joe Brackner Jr
  • Black political power and criminal justice: Washington County, 1868-1884 / Donald G. Nieman
  • The African American exodus from Comanche County / Billy Bob Lightfoot
  • In pursuit of freedom
  • Black trail drivers of Caldwell County / Donaly E. Brice
  • Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: a Coryell County freedom colony / Rebecca Sharpless
  • The African American military experience in central Texas, 1863-1900 / James T. Matthews
  • William Madison McDonald: business and fraternal leader / Bruce A. Glasrud
  • The Waco horror: the lynching of Jesse Washington / James M. Sorelle
  • Striving for success and civil rights
  • The life and work of Dr. Beadie Eugene Conner: an African American physician in Jim Crow Texas / Keith Volanto
  • Aboard the wrong ship in the right books: Doris Miller and historical accuracy / Neil G. Sapper
  • The boomerang migration of Lillian B. Horace / Karen Kossie-Chernyshev
  • Sepia record as a forum for negotiating women's roles / Sherilyn Brandenstein
  • Reluctance versus reality: the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-1956 / Ronald E. Marcello
  • Texas voices: the 1963 civil rights march on Austin / Martin Kulhmann.