Blue Texas : the making of a multiracial Democratic coalition in the Civil Rights era / Max Krochmal.

Author
Krochmal, Max [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 537 pages)

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This work is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-20th century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American and white labor and community activists came together to empower the state's marginalized minorities.
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Includes bibliographic references and index.
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Contents
  • People are power: the mass uprising and the maverick coalition
  • Segregation is an economic problem: black workers win the right to vote
  • Forcing us together in self-defense: the Cold War, the black vote and the liberal movement
  • Minorities combine: G.J. Sutton, Albert Peña, and the Democrats of Texas
  • Unions are needed so desperately here: the rebirth of the labor movement and the seeds of the Bexar coalition
  • We shall be heard: civil rights in black and brown from the sit-ins to Viva Kennedy
  • Trying to reach substantially unanimous agreement: the "Latin vote" and the first democratic coalition
  • Separating the wheat from the chaff: intra-racial divides beget inter-racial unity
  • They'll never separate us again: the multiracial democratic coalition on the march
  • New power for the Texas minorities: winning the battles, losing the war.
ISBN
  • 1469628031 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781469628035 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781469626765 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1469626764 ((electronic bk.))
Publisher no.
MWT11719637
OCLC
958120965
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