Seeking Inalienable Rights

Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment.Inside This Book:Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech UniversityCrucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 18861896-George N. Green, University of Texas at ArlingtonRacism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s1910s -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois UniversityFighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate WordReligious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 19541968-David K. Chrisman, University ofMary Hardin-BaylorElusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State UniversityChicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community CollegeThis insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.

Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment.Inside This Book:Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech UniversityCrucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 18861896-George N. Green, University of Texas at ArlingtonRacism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s1910s -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois UniversityFighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate WordReligious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 19541968-David K. Chrisman, University ofMary Hardin-BaylorElusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State UniversityChicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community CollegeThis insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.