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

    Published 2011
    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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    From Black codes to recodification removing the veil from regulatory writing / by Williams, Miriam F.

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : race, regulations, and trust -- Case study I-Texas Black codes of 1866 : identifying discourse markers of trust -- Texas laws and tacit laws : redefining black labor from "the nadir" to civil rights -- Case study II-Texas agencies : the challenge of evoking trust -- Case study III-contemporary black business owners : legalese, plain English, or both? …”
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    Advancing democracy African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas / by Shabazz, Amilcar

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…As separate as the fingers : higher education in Texas from promise to problem, 1865-1940 -- The all-out war for democracy in education : ideological struggle and the Texas university movement -- Lift the seventy-five-year-old color ban and raise UT's standards : university students for democracy before Sweatt -- This is white civilization's last stand : university desegregation before Brown -- Democracy is on the march in Texas : Black equality versus white power,1955-1957 -- Plowing around Africans on Aryan plantations : access without acceptance at Texas universities, 1958-1965.…”
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