Seeking Inalienable Rights

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 UniversityCrucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 18861896-George N. Green, University of Texas at ArlingtonRacism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s1910s -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois UniversityFighting 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 WordReligious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 19541968-David K. Chrisman, University ofMary Hardin-BaylorElusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State UniversityChicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community CollegeThis insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.