African American History in New Mexico: Portraits from Five Hundred Years

Contents

Contents preface vii introduction: Under the Radar: Blacks in New Mexico History 1 Bruce A. Glasrud 1. Esteban 21 David J. Weber 2. Intimacy and Empire: Indian-African Interaction in Spanish Colonial New Mexico, 1500–1800 25 Dedra S. McDonald 3. Africans and Discrimination in Colonial New Mexico: Don Pedro Bautista Pino’s Startling Statements of 1812 in Perspective 49 Jim F. Heath and Frederick M. Nunn 4. A Law That Would Make Caligula Blush?: New Mexico Territory’s Unique Slave Code, 1859–1861 56 Mark J. Stegmaier 5. African Americans with Confederate Troops in West Texas and New Mexico 85 Martin Hardwick Hall 6. Cathay Williams: Black Woman Soldier, 1866–1868 89 DeAnne Blanton 7. Civilians and Black Soldiers in New Mexico Territory, 1866–1900: A Cross-Cultural Experience 101 Monroe L. Billington 8. Black Communities in New Mexico 111 Jeff Berg and M. A. Walton 9. Another White Hope Bites the Dust: The Jack Johnson– Jim Flynn Heavyweight Fight in 1912 124 Raymond Wilson 10. Community Building on the Border: The Role of the 24th Infantry Band at Columbus, New Mexico, 1916–1922 136 Horace Daniel Nash 11. Anita Scott Coleman: New Mexico’s “Unfinished Masterpiece” 144 Bruce A. Glasrud 12. New Mexico’s Black Women: Establishing Perspectives 151 Maisha Baton 13. How Albuquerque Got Its Civil Rights Ordinance 165 George Long 14. Between the Tracks and the Freeway: African Americans in Albuquerque 170 Roger W. Banks 15. Haroldie Kent Spriggs and Sammie J. Kent: Integrating a White High School in the 1950s 186 Richard Melzer 16. The Modern Civil Rights Movement in New Mexico, 1955–1975 201 George M. Cooper 17. African American Leaders in Recent New Mexico Politics, 1980–2010 213 D. Scott Glasrud and Joshua Merrill notes 225 selected bibliography 261 credits 269 index 272 ...