Title Fighting their own battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / Brian D. Behnken

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011] ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 347 pages) 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 scapegoats : school desegregation in the late 1960s and early 1970s Summary Behnken explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizational differences that all worked to separate blacks' and Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles in Texas Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index Notes English Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 26, 2021) Subject Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Texas -- History -- 20th century School integration -- Texas -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Relations with Mexican Americans -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Relations with Mexican Americans Civil rights movements Ethnic relations Mexican Americans -- Civil rights Race relations School integration SUBJECT Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Texas -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Texas Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807877876 0807877875 9781469603193 1469603195

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