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Through many dangers, toils and snares : black leadership in Texas, 1868-1898
- Title
- Through many dangers, toils and snares : black leadership in Texas, 1868-1898 / Merline Pitre.
- Author
- Pitre, Merline, 1943-
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Subjects
- African American politicians
- African American leadership
- 1865-1950
- Texas > Politics and government > 1865-1950
- Race relations
- Biography
- African Americans > Texas > Politics and government
- African American politicians > Texas > Biography
- African American leadership > Texas
- Black author
- Texas > Race relations
- African Americans > Politics and government
- Politics and government
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Note
- Subtitle in previous editions varies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-291) and index.
- Contents
- The toils : the making of biographical profiles -- The Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 -- The Reconstruction legislature -- Blacks at the crossroad 1872-1875 -- The post-Reconstruction legislatures -- The snares : white over black in party conventions -- A thorn in the side -- Miscalculation or manipulation -- Fusion or fission -- The danger : methods of removal -- Rejection, reduction, retrenchment -- The personalities : neither all good nor all bad -- A preview -- Matthew Gaines: the militant -- George T. Ruby: the party loyalist -- Richard Allen: the opportunist -- Robert Lloyd Smith: the accommodationist -- Norris Wright Cuney: the climber of sorts.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1414
- ISBN
- 9781623494827
- 1623494826
- LCCN
- 2016007617
- 40026274910
- OCLC
- 956623050
- Author
- Pitre, Merline, 1943- author.
- Title
- Through many dangers, toils and snares : black leadership in Texas, 1868-1898 / Merline Pitre.
- Publisher
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- Third edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-291) and index.
- Original Version
- Originally published: 1st ed. Austin, Tex. : Eakin Press, ©1985.
- Chronological Term
- 1865-1950
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026274910
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1414