The African American Experience in Texas

by Glasrud, Bruce A.; Smallwood, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780896726093
• ISBN10: 0896726096
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

In the past forty years, an appreciable body of scholarship has accumulated on the history of African Americans in Texas. Yet never before has anyone gathered this work into any easily accessible format for wide consumption. Gathered for historians, teachers, students, and others interested in the lives and contributions of African American Texans, this anthology sheds light on events, people, ideas, and communities that have significantly, shaped the state's history.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. XI
Preface	p. XIII
Acknowledgments	p. XVII
Introduction: African American History in the Lone Star State	p. 1
The Nineteenth Century Experience
The Nineteenth Century Experience: An Introduction	p. 23
Urban Slavery in the Southwest	p. 31
Human Property: The Black Slave in Harrison County, 1850-1860	p. 57
Emancipation and the Black Family: A Case Study in Texas	p. 71
In Search of the Black Cowboy in Texas	p. 86
Black Urban Churches on the Southern Frontier, 1865-1900	p. 102
William R. Shafter: Commanding Black Troops in West Texas	p. 125
John B. Rayner: A Study in Black Populist Leadership	p. 138
The El Paso Racial Crisis of 1900	p. 153
The Twentieth Century Experience
The Twentieth Century Experience: An Introduction	p. 173
The "Waco Horror": The Lynching of Jesse Washington	p. 183
Black Labor, the Black Middle Class, and Organized Protest along the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1883-1945	p. 203
Semi-Professional African American Baseball in Texas before the Great Depression	p. 218
Black Culture in Urban Texas: A Lone Star Renaissance	p. 231
The Rise of the NAACP in Texas	p. 258
The Elusive Ballot: The Black Struggle against the Texas Democratic White Primary, 1932-1945	p. 279
Black Houstonians and the "Separate but Equal" Doctrine: Carter W. Wesley versus Lulu B. White	p. 302
Direct Action at the University of Texas During the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965	p. 318
The Texas Negro Peace Officers' Association: The Origins of Black Police Unionism	p. 335
Black Texas History: A Selected Bibliography	p. 353
Contributors	p. 377
Credits	p. 383
Index	p. 385
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