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Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence a. Nixon and Black Activism - Hardcover

Guzman, Will

 
9780252038921: Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence a. Nixon and Black Activism
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0252038924 ISBN 13: 9780252038921
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South.

Will Guzmán delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzmán also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary.

A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Will Guzmán is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at Florida A&M University. He is a coauthor of Landmarks and Legacies: A Guide to Tallahassee's African American Heritage.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252038924
ISBN 13 
9780252038921
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
200
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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4831 GR
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