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Author Hales, Douglas, 1951-

Title A southern family in white & Black : the Cuneys of Texas / Douglas Hales
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrations
Series Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 13
Texas A & M southwestern studies ; no. 13.
Contents Philip Cuney : politician and slaveholder -- Norris Wright Cuney : labor and civic leader -- Political education, 1869-83 -- New leader of the party -- Party and patronage -- Maud Cuney : education and marriage -- Maud Cuney-Hare : musician, director, writer
Summary The complex issues of race and politics in nineteenth-century Texas may be nowhere more dramatically embodied than in three generations of the family of Norris Wright Cuney, mulatto labor and political leader. Douglas Hales explores the birthright Cuney received from his white plantation-owner father, Philip Cuney, and the way his heritage played out in the life of his daughter, Maud Cuney-Hare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168) and index
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Subject Cooney family.
Cuney, Norris Wright, 1846-1898.
Cuney, Philip Minor, 1807-
Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936.
SUBJECT Cooney family fast
Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936 fast
Cuney, Norris Wright, 1846-1898 fast
Cuney, Philip Minor, 1807- fast
Subject African Americans -- Biography
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography
African American politicians -- Texas -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
African American politicians
African Americans
Politics and government
Race relations
Racially mixed people
SUBJECT Texas -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134280
Texas -- Race relations
Texas -- Biography
Austin County (Tex.) -- Biography
Subject Texas
Texas -- Austin County
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1585449954
9781585449958
Other Titles Southern family in white and Black