Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice

Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans’ quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book:
Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas -Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University
Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886-1896 -George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington
Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s-1910s
-Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University
Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I -James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair
Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio -Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word
Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954-1968 -David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston -Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University
Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas -Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.