Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism

About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS gregg andrews, labor historian and former NEH Fellow at Texas State University, is the author of Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1924 (1991), City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer (1996), and Insane Sisters: Or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town (1999). In 2008 his article “Black Working-Class Political Activism and Biracial Unionism: Galveston Longshoremen in Jim Crow Texas, 1919–1921” was published in the Journal of Southern History. He is currently finishing a biography of Thyra J. Edwards, a black radical feminist and labor and civil rights activist in the 1930s and 1940s who grew up in Houston. donna barnes is associate professor of sociology at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Farmers in Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People’s Party in Texas (1984) and has recently completed a manuscript, The Unredeemed, on the Louisiana Farmers’ Union and People’s Party in Louisiana. michael r. botson jr. is a former union steelworker turned historian . He received his PhD from the University of Houston in 1999 and is professor of history at Houston Community College. His articles on labor and civil rights have appeared in the Houston Review, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Steel Labor, and the Houston Chronicle , and his book Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company 226 Contributors received the Texas Historical Commission’s T. R. Fehrenbach Award in 2005. peter h. buckingham previously taught at three different Texas universities but is now professor of American history at Linfield College in Oregon. He is writing a biography of “Red Tom” Hickey and the Texas socialist movement. He is the author of several books, including International Normalcy: America’s Open Door Peace with the Former Central Powers, 1921–1929; Woodrow Wilson: A Bibliography of His Times and Presidency; America Sees Red: Anti-Communism in America, 1870s to 1980s; Rebel against Injustice: The Life of Frank P. O’Hare; and (ed.) Expectations for the Millennium: American Socialist Visions of the Future. gregg cantrell holds the Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in History at Texas Christian University. He is author of Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent and Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas. He is currently writing a history of the Texas Populist Party. Cantrell is a two-time winner of the T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award. patrick cox is associate director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (University of Texas at Austin) and author of numerous publications, including the award-winning Ralph W. Yarborough : The People’s Senator (2002). His most recent book, coauthored with Michael Phillips, is First among Equals: A History of the Texas House Speakers (2010). Cox is a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. david o’donald cullen, professor of history, Collin College, and Rockefeller Foundation Grant recipient, is the author of numerous historical essays, including “Back to the Future: Eugenics, A Bibliographic Essay” in the Public Historian: A Journal of Public Policy and “Populism” in the Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. He is coauthor of “The Communist Party of the United States and African American Political Candidates” in The African American Presidency: From Douglass to Obama (2010). arnoldo de león is the C. J. “Red” Davidson Professor of History at Angelo State University, a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association , and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Among his many publications are North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Ameri- Contributors 227 cans in the United States; Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History ; They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes Towards Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900; and The Tejano Community, 1836–1900. He is currently completing a book on Hispanics in U.S. sports. bruce a. glasrud, an independent historian residing in Seguin, Texas, is professor emeritus of history, California State University, East Bay, retired dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Sul Ross State University , and a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. A specialist in the history of blacks in the West, Glasrud has authored or coauthored more than thirteen books, including Black Women in Texas History (winner of the 2009 Texas State Historical Association’s Liz Carpenter Award), The African American West: A Century of Short Stories, and Buffalo Soldiers in the West...