Research Catalog

Title

African Americans in central Texas history : from slavery to civil rights / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles.

Publication

College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Glasrud, Bruce A.
• Liles, Debbie M.

Description

x, 316 pages : map; 24 cm

Subject

• African Americans > Civil rights > History. > Texas
• African Americans > Texas > Biography
• Civil rights > Texas > History
• Slavery > Texas > History
• Racism > Texas > History
• African Americans
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Civil rights
• Racism
• Slavery
• Texas

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Betwixt old ways and new freedoms: African Americans in central Texas / Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles -- Slavery and its aftermath -- Livestock and slavery in north central Texas: a view from Stephens County / Deborah M. Liles -- Slavery on the frontier: the peculiar institution in central Texas / William Dean Carrigan -- The transition from slave potter to free potter: the Wilson potteries of Guadalupe County / E. Joe Brackner Jr -- Black political power and criminal justice: Washington County, 1868-1884 / Donald G. Nieman -- The African American exodus from Comanche County / Billy Bob Lightfoot -- In pursuit of freedom -- Black trail drivers of Caldwell County / Donaly E. Brice -- Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: a Coryell County freedom colony / Rebecca Sharpless -- The African American military experience in central Texas, 1863-1900 / James T. Matthews -- William Madison McDonald: business and fraternal leader / Bruce A. Glasrud -- The Waco horror: the lynching of Jesse Washington / James M. Sorelle -- Striving for success and civil rights -- The life and work of Dr. Beadie Eugene Conner: an African American physician in Jim Crow Texas / Keith Volanto -- Aboard the wrong ship in the right books: Doris Miller and historical accuracy / Neil G. Sapper -- The boomerang migration of Lillian B. Horace / Karen Kossie-Chernyshev -- Sepia record as a forum for negotiating women's roles / Sherilyn Brandenstein -- Reluctance versus reality: the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-1956 / Ronald E. Marcello -- Texas voices: the 1963 civil rights march on Austin / Martin Kulhmann.

Call Number

Sc E 19-557

ISBN

• 9781623497477
• 1623497477
• 9781623497484 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018057927

OCLC

1078885957

Title

African Americans in central Texas history : from slavery to civil rights / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles.

Publisher

College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Glasrud, Bruce A., editor.

Liles, Debbie M., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-557