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Blue Texas : the making of a multiracial Democratic coalition in the Civil Rights era / Max Krochmal.
Author
Krochmal, Max
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
xiii, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Availability
Available Online
HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications
HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JK4889 .K76 2016
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Subject(s)
Electoral coalitions
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Texas
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History
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20th century
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Minorities
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Political activity
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Texas
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History
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20th century
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African Americans
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Political activity
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Texas
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History
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20th century
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Mexican Americans
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Political activity
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Texas
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Political participation
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Texas
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History
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20th century
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Civil rights movements
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Texas
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History
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20th century
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Texas
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Politics and government
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20th century
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Series
Justice, power, and politics
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Summary note
This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together to empower the state's marginalized minorities. At the ballot box and in the streets, these diverse activists demanded not only integration but economic justice, labor rights, and real political power for all. Their efforts gave rise to the Democratic Coalition of the 1960s, a militant, multiracial alliance that would take on and eventually overthrow both Jim Crow and Juan Crow. Using rare archival sources and original oral history interviews, Krochmal reveals the often-overlooked democratic foundations and liberal tradition of one of our nation's most conservative states. Blue Texas remembers the many forgotten activists who, by crossing racial lines and building coalitions, democratized their cities and state to a degree that would have been unimaginable just a decade earlier--and it shows why their story still matters today.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-512) and index.
Contents
People are power : the mass uprising and the maverick coalition
Segregation is an economic problem : black workers win the right to vote
Forcing us together in self-defense : the Cold War, the black vote and the liberal movement
Minorities combine : G.J. Sutton, Albert Peña, and the Democrats of Texas
Unions are needed so desperately here : the rebirth of the labor movement and the seeds of the Bexar coalition
We shall be heard : rights in black and brown from the sit-ins to Viva Kennedy
Trying to reach substantially unanimous agreement : the "Latin vote" and the first democratic coalition
Separating the wheat from the chaff : intra-racial divides beget inter-racial unity
They'll never separate us again : the multiracial democratic coalition on the march
New power for the Texas minorities : winning the battles, losing the war.
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ISBN
9781469626758 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1469626756 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016004007
OCLC
936687519
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