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, 18861896-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s1910s -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, 19541968-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.
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