Title Fighting their own battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / Brian D. Behnken.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
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Description	1 online resource (347 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index.
Contents	Advancing the cause of democracy : the origins of protest in the long civil rights movement -- Sleeping on another man's wounds : the battle for integrated schools in the 1950s -- Nothing but victory can stop us : direct action and political action in the early 1960s -- Venceremos : the evolution of civil rights in the mid-1960s -- Am I my brother's keeper? : ecumenical activism in the Lone Star State -- The day of nonviolence is past : the era of Brown power and Black power in Texas -- Pawns, puppets, and ccapegoats : school desegregation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Summary	Behnken explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizational differences that all worked to separate blacks' and Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles in Texas.
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Subject	Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
	Mexican Americans -- Civil rights.
	Texas.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Civil rights.
	Civil rights movements -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements.
	School integration -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
	School integration.
	African Americans -- Relations with Mexican Americans -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Relations with Mexican Americans.
	Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Race relations.
	Texas -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Behnken, Brian D. Fighting their own battles. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834787 (DLC) 2010047529 (OCoLC)668197699
ISBN	9780807877876 (electronic book)
	0807877875 (electronic book)
	9781469603193 (electronic book)
	1469603195 (electronic book)
	9780807834787
	0807834785

Title Fighting their own battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / Brian D. Behnken.

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