An edition of Fighting their own battles (2011)

Fighting their own battles

Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas

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An edition of Fighting their own battles (2011)

Fighting their own battles

Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas

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Behnken examines the history of both the African American and Mexican American civil rights struggles in Texas, exploring the racial prejudices, cultural dissimilarities, class tensions, organizational differences, and geographical distance that all worked to create two separate civil rights movements.

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Language
English
Pages
347

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Chapel Hill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8009764
Library of Congress
F395.M5 B56 2011, F395.M5B56 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 347 p. :
Number of pages
347

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24914770M
ISBN 10
0807834785
ISBN 13
9780807834787
LCCN
2010047529
OCLC/WorldCat
668197699

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16011227W

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