Title Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands : Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism / Will Guzmán

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Lawrence A. Nixon chronology -- Introduction : tale of a doctor, history of a land -- Marshall, Texas, 1883-1909 -- The lure of El Paso, 1910-1919 -- Bullets and ropes: wading in bloody waters, 1919-1924 -- Nixon, the NAACP, and the courts, 1924-1934 -- Optimism and rejection, 1925-1962 -- Coda Summary In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzmán delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzmán also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Nixon, Lawrence A., 1883-1966. SUBJECT Nixon, Lawrence A., 1883-1966 fast Subject African Americans -- Texas -- El Paso -- Biography African Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- El Paso -- History African Americans -- Segregation -- Texas -- El Paso -- History African Americans -- Suffrage -- Texas POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights. African American physicians African Americans African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Segregation African Americans -- Suffrage Texas Texas -- El Paso Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019718134 ISBN 9780252096884 0252096886 0252082060 9780252082061

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