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Title

Anti-Black violence in twentieth-century Texas / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud ; foreword by W. Marvin Dulaney.

Publication

College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Glasrud, Bruce A.

Description

viii, 209 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas provides an arresting look at the history of violence against African Americans in Texas. From a lynching in Paris at the turn of the century to the 1998 murder of Jasper resident James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death behind a truck, this volume uncovers the violent side of race relations in the Lone Star State.
• Historian Bruce A. Glasrud has curated an essential contribution to Texas history and historiography that will also bring attention to a chapter in the state<U+2019>s history that, for many, is still very much a part of the present. (Publisher).

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• African Americans > Violence against > Texas
• African Americans > Crimes against > Texas
• Hate crimes > Texas
• Texas > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Essays
• History

Note

• All contributions (except the Afterword) have been previously published in books or as articles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Racism's ugly past; white Texas's twentieth century actions / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Paris is burning: lynching and racial violence in Lamar County, 1890-1920 / Brandon Jett -- An "exciting occurrence": the lynching / Patricia Bernstein -- The Houston riot of 1917 / Calvin Smith -- Violence in a heathen land: the Longview race riot of 1919 / William M. Tuttle Jr . -- A "good job" in the early hours of the morning / Monte Akers -- The Sherman courthouse riot of 1930 / Edward Hake Phillips -- Violence in an "arsenal of democracy": the Beaumont race riot, 1943 / James A. Burran -- Houston and the TSU riot / Bernard Friedberg -- Loyal Garner arrest / Howard Swindle -- The Jasper lynching / Joyce E. King -- Bust town / Nate Blakeslee -- The beating of Billy Ray Johnson / Pamela Colloff -- Afterword: Twenty-first century Texas race relations / Bruce A. Glasrud.

ISBN

• 9781623493332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1623493331 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781623493349 (e-book)
• 162349334X (e-book)

LCCN

^^2015014228

OCLC

• 907621764
• SCSB-11698813

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library