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Author Behnken, Brian D.

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

Imprint Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xix, 347 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Texas -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807834787 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807877876 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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