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Autore |
Behnken Brian D |
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Titolo |
Fighting their own battles [[electronic resource] ] : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / / Brian D. Behnken |
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Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0319-5 |
0-8078-7787-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Electronic books. |
Texas Race relations History 20th century |
Texas Ethnic relations History 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of |
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