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Contents Foreword: African Americans—In south Texas? vii CAry D.WINTZ Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The African American Experience in south Texas 1 BruCE A. GlAsruD Defending the Unnecessary: slavery in san Antonio in the 1850s 29 lArry P. KNIGHT Just Southwest of Dixie: reconstruction in south Texas, 1865–1876 46 KENNETH WAyNE HOWEll “Wantonly Maltreated and Slain, Simply Because They Are Free”: racialViolence during reconstruction in south Texas 65 rEBECCA A. KOsAry After Emancipation: Cologne,Texas 85 sArA r. MAssEy The Forging of the African American Community in Corpus Christi, Texas, 1865–1900 99 ruE WOOD Lola and Leon Houck versus the Southern Pacific Railway Company 133 JANICE l. suMlEr-EDMOND The ColoredTrainmen of America: Kingsville Black labor and the railroads 151 JENNIFEr BOrrEr Divided We Stand: Jim Crow Education inVictoria,Texas, 1901–1966 177 EDWArD ByErly Maury Maverick and Racial Politics in San Antonio,Texas, 1938–1941 206 JuDITH KAAZ DOylE The Houston Eagles and the End of the Negro Leagues 242 rOB FINK Corpus Christi’s Galvan Ballroom: Music and Multiculturalism in the 1950s 257 DAVID lOuZON Racial Change on the Southern Periphery: The Case of san Antonio, Texas, 1960–1965 280 rOBErT A. GOlDBErG “A Pearl of Great Price”: socio-literary Activism in the life and Writings of Olga samples Davis 313 JEANETTE NyDA PAssTy Blacks in South Texas: selected Bibliography 329 BruCE A. GlAsruD Contributors 335 Permissions 339 Index 341 ...