LEADER 03593nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910791750403321 005 20230120034741.0 010 $a1-4696-0319-5 010 $a0-8078-7787-5 035 $a(CKB)2560000000071765 035 $a(EBL)680720 035 $a(OCoLC)715868046 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469160 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11299147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469160 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10511093 035 $a(PQKB)10651982 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244380 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23336 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL680720 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10460907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC680720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322007 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000071765 100 $a20101126d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFighting their own battles$b[electronic resource] $eMexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas /$fBrian D. Behnken 210 $aChapel Hill [N.C.] $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4696-1895-8 311 0 $a0-8078-3478-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAdvancing 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. 330 $aBetween 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 similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified. In Fighting Their Own Battles, Brian Behnken explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizational differences that all worked to separate Mexican Americans and blacks. Behnken further demonstrates 606 $aMexican Americans$xCivil rights$zTexas$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zTexas$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zTexas$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSchool integration$zTexas$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Mexican Americans$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aTexas$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aTexas$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMexican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aSchool integration$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Mexican Americans$xHistory 676 $a305.8009764 700 $aBehnken$b Brian D$01485600 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791750403321 996 $aFighting their own battles$93704809 997 $aUNINA