LEADER 03096nam 2200601 450 001 9910788130103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-252-08206-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000616228 035 $a(EBL)3440667 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001526278 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11821247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001526278 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11504843 035 $a(PQKB)10717304 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440667 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001040932 035 $a(OCoLC)909028083 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47905 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440667 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11055524 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL784670 035 $a(OCoLC)932311295 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000616228 100 $a20150525h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivil rights in the Texas borderlands $eDr. Lawrence A. Nixon and black activism /$fWill Guzma?n 210 1$aUrbana, [Illinois] ;$aChicago, [Illinois] ;$aSpringfield, [Illinois] :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-252-03892-4 311 $a0-252-09688-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLawrence A. Nixon chronology -- Introduction : tale of a doctor, history of a land -- Marshall, Texas, 1883-1909 -- The lure of El Paso, 1910-1919 -- Bullets and ropes: wading in bloody waters, 1919-1924 -- Nixon, the NAACP, and the courts, 1924-1934 -- Optimism and rejection, 1925-1962 -- Coda. 330 $aIn 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzma?n delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzma?n also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights 607 $aTexas$2fast 607 $aTexas$zEl Paso$2fast 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights. 676 $a323.092 700 $aGuzma?n$b Will$01539974 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788130103321 996 $aCivil rights in the Texas borderlands$93791274 997 $aUNINA