Search Results - Civilization

The making of a civil rights leader by Gutiérrez, José Angel

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Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /

Table of Contents: “…Chrisman -- Elusive unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and civil rights in Houston / Brian D. Behnken -- Chicanismo and the flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s agitation and litigation by Mexican American youth in Texas / Steven Harmon Wilson.…”
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Storm over Texas the annexation controversy and the road to Civil War / by Silbey, Joel H.

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Texas roots agriculture and rural life before the Civil War / by Jones, C. Allan

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

Table of 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? …”
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Alexander Watkins Terrell Civil War soldier, Texas lawmaker, American diplomat / by Gould, Lewis L.

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We won't back down Severita Lara's rise from student leader to mayor / by Gutiérrez, José Angel

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Cortina defending the Mexican name in Texas / by Thompson, Jerry D.

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To the line of fire! Mexican Texans and World War I / by Ramírez, José A., 1975-

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The French in Texas history, migration, culture /

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More zeal than discretion the westward adventures of Walter P. Lane / by Bryan, Jimmy L.

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Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor James Webb Throckmorton / by Howell, Kenneth Wayne, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an enigma in nineteenth-century Texas politics -- The foundations of a frontier politician, 1825-50 -- Guardian of the frontier, 1851-57 -- The storm of passion and sectional hatred, 1857-61 -- The Civil War: "He that is not for us is against us," 1861-65 -- Tainted blood: early Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-66 -- "Every exertion within my reach": challenging presidential Reconstruction in Texas, 1866 -- An impediment to Reconstruction, 1867 -- Fueling the fires of redemption: the struggle to bring down radical rule in Texas, 1867-73 -- The end of the line: failed restorations and congressional mediocrity in the post-Reconstruction era, 1873-94.…”
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Branding Texas performing culture in the Lone Star State / by Clemons, Leigh, 1967-

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Los Brazos de Dios a plantation society in the Texas borderlands, 1821-1865 / by Kelley, Sean M., 1966-

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Naturalizing Mexican immigrants a Texas history / by Menchaca, Martha

Table of Contents: “…/Mexico border to the U.S. Civil War -- The politics of naturalization policy in Texas : the case of Mexican immigrants -- Ricardo Rodriguez and the People's Party in the 1890s -- From the Spanish-American War to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution -- Mexican women and naturalization : the era of the woman suffrage movement -- Then and now : the path toward citizenship -- Appendix 1: Texas naturalization records and archives, pre-1906 -- Appendix 2: Persons naturalized in Texas and by Mexican origin, 1907/2009.…”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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Gone to Texas a history of the Lone Star State / by Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Empire State of the South, 1846-1861 207 -- 10. The Civil War, 1861-1865 239 -- 11. Reconstruction, 1865-1876 268 -- 12. …”
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