Seeking Inalienable Rights
Texans and Their Quests for Justice
Published on 30. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
222 pages
978-1-60344-123-0 (ISBN)
Description
Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book: ""Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas""-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University ""Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886-1896""-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington ""Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s-1910s"" -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University ""Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I""-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair ""Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio""-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word ""Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954-1968""-David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor ""Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston""-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University ""Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas""-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.
Reviews / Votes
"Texas is far from a perfect place in this 'rights' business, and these essays in Seeking Inalienable Rights make it plain that the emphasis has been on 'seeking' (meaning that what is considered inalienable has been at least suppressed)." - Archie P. McDonald, Stephen F. Austin State University "An informative collection of articles illustrating the multifarious ways in which Texans over time perceived the meaning of inalienable rights.'" - Arnoldo De Leon, professor of history at Angelo State University "African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth Century Texas: Early Organizing in the Search for Equality" - Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University "Texodusters: Texans and the Exodus of 1879" - Bryan M. Jack, Winston-Salem State University "Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886-1896" - George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington "Finding Jack (and Sue) McQuinney: African American Activists in Rural Progressive-Era Texas" - Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University "Fighting on the Homefront: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in the First World War" - James B. Seymour Jr., Lone Star College, Cy Fair "Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio" - Patricia Gower, University of the Incarnate Word "The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Moderate Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954-1968" - David Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor "Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas" - Steve Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College "Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston" - Brian D. Behnken, University of California - Davis"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
Illustrations
16 b&w photos. 1 fig.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60344-123-0 (9781603441230)
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Person
DEBRA A. REID is associate professor of history at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Her Ph.D. is from Texas A&M University.