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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808742303321

Autore

Hales Douglas <1951->

Titolo

A southern family in white & Black : the Cuneys of Texas / / Douglas Hales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-299-05376-9

1-60344-683-4

1-58544-995-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Texas A & M southwestern studies ; ; no. 13

Disciplina

976.4004/96073/00922

B

Soggetti

African Americans

Racially mixed people - United States

African American politicians - Texas

Texas Politics and government 1865-1950

Texas Race relations

Texas Biography

Austin County (Tex.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Philip Cuney : politician and slaveholder -- Norris Wright Cuney : labor and civic leader -- Political education, 1869-83 -- New leader of the party -- Party and patronage -- Maud Cuney : education and marriage -- Maud Cuney-Hare : musician, director, writer.

Sommario/riassunto

Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenthcentury Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. Here, Hales places Cuney in the context of his family's generations and of his tumultuous times. He focuses on Norris Wright Cuney's father, Philip, a wealthy, politically active plantation owner and slaveholder in Austin County; Norris Wright Cuney, who, after Reconstruction, led the Texas Republican Party during those turbulent years and worked tirelessly for African American education and equal opportunity; and Norris Wright



Cuney's daughter, Maud, who became actively involved in the racial uplift movement of the early twentieth century.