The African American experience in Texas : an anthology / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, Description: xviii, 404 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780896726093
  • 0896726096
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 976.4/00496073 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.93.T4 A38 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : African American history in the Lone Star State / Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood -- Urban slavery in the Southwest / Paul D. Lack -- Human property : the Black slave in Harrison County, 1850-1860 / Randolph B. Campbell -- Emancipation and the Black family : a case study in Texas / James M. Smallwood -- In search of the Black cowboy in Texas / Michael N. Searles -- Black urban churches on the southern frontier, 1865-1900 / Alwyn Barr -- William R. Shafter : commanding Black troops in West Texas / Paul H. Carlson -- John B. Rayner : a study in Black populist leadership / Gregg Cantrell -- The El Paso racial crisis of 1900 / Garna L. Christian -- The "Waco horror" : the lynching of Jesse Washington / James M. Sorelle -- Black labor, the Black middle class, and organized protest along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1883-1945 / Ernest Obadele-Starks -- Semi-professional African American baseball in Texas before the Great Depression / Robert C. Fink -- Black culture in urban Texas : a Lone Star renaissance / Neil Sapper -- The rise of the NAACP in Texas / Michael L. Gillette -- The elusive ballot : the Black struggle against the Texas democratic white primary, 1932-1945 / Darlene Clark Hine -- Black Houstonians and the "separate but equal" doctrine : Carter W. Wesley versus Lulu B. White / Merline Pitre -- Direct action at the University of Texas during the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965 / Martin Kuhlman -- The Texas Negro Peace Officers' Association : the origins of Black police unionism / W. Marvin Dulaney -- Black Texas history : a selected bibliography / Bruce A. Glasrud.
Summary: The African American Experience in Texas collects for the first time the finest historical research and writing on African Americans in Texas. Covering the time period between 1820 and the late 1970s, the selections highlight the significant role that black Texans played in the development of the state. Topics include politics, slavery, religion, military experience, segregation and discrimination, civil rights, women, education, and recreation. This anthology provides new insights into a previously neglected part of American history and is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of black Texans.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-376) and index.

Introduction : African American history in the Lone Star State / Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood -- Urban slavery in the Southwest / Paul D. Lack -- Human property : the Black slave in Harrison County, 1850-1860 / Randolph B. Campbell -- Emancipation and the Black family : a case study in Texas / James M. Smallwood -- In search of the Black cowboy in Texas / Michael N. Searles -- Black urban churches on the southern frontier, 1865-1900 / Alwyn Barr -- William R. Shafter : commanding Black troops in West Texas / Paul H. Carlson -- John B. Rayner : a study in Black populist leadership / Gregg Cantrell -- The El Paso racial crisis of 1900 / Garna L. Christian -- The "Waco horror" : the lynching of Jesse Washington / James M. Sorelle -- Black labor, the Black middle class, and organized protest along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1883-1945 / Ernest Obadele-Starks -- Semi-professional African American baseball in Texas before the Great Depression / Robert C. Fink -- Black culture in urban Texas : a Lone Star renaissance / Neil Sapper -- The rise of the NAACP in Texas / Michael L. Gillette -- The elusive ballot : the Black struggle against the Texas democratic white primary, 1932-1945 / Darlene Clark Hine -- Black Houstonians and the "separate but equal" doctrine : Carter W. Wesley versus Lulu B. White / Merline Pitre -- Direct action at the University of Texas during the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965 / Martin Kuhlman -- The Texas Negro Peace Officers' Association : the origins of Black police unionism / W. Marvin Dulaney -- Black Texas history : a selected bibliography / Bruce A. Glasrud.

The African American Experience in Texas collects for the first time the finest historical research and writing on African Americans in Texas. Covering the time period between 1820 and the late 1970s, the selections highlight the significant role that black Texans played in the development of the state. Topics include politics, slavery, religion, military experience, segregation and discrimination, civil rights, women, education, and recreation. This anthology provides new insights into a previously neglected part of American history and is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of black Texans.

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