Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice

Contents

acknowledgments ix introduction Debra A. Reid xiii chapter one Early Organizing in the Search for Equality: African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas Alwyn Barr 1 chapter two Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886–96 George N. Green 17 chapter three Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s–1910s Debra A. Reid 37 chapter four Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I James Seymour 59 Contents viii = contents chapter five Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio Patricia E. Gower 77 chapter six Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954–68 David K. Chrisman 97 chapter seven Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston Brian D. Behnken 123 chapter eight Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas Steven Harmon Wilson 147 contributors 169 index 173 ...