Fighting their own battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas

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

Author/creator	Behnken, Brian D.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Description	xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Mexican Americans--Civil rights --Texas --History --20th century. African Americans--Civil rights --Texas --History --20th century. Civil rights movements--Texas --History --20th century. School integration--Texas --History --20th century. African Americans--Relations with Mexican Americans --History --20th century. Texas--Race relations --History --20th century. Texas--Ethnic relations --History --20th century.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2010047529
ISBN	9780807834787 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807834785 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	F395.M5 B56 2011	✔ Available	Place Hold