Fighting their own battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / Brian D. Behnken.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Behnken, Brian D.
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
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.
Physical Description:xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.