Table of Contents:
  • People are power: the mass uprising and the maverick coalition
  • Segregation is an economic problem: black workers win the right to vote
  • Forcing us together in self-defense: the Cold War, the black vote and the liberal movement
  • Minorities combine: G.J. Sutton, Albert Peña, and the Democrats of Texas
  • Unions are needed so desperately here: the rebirth of the labor movement and the seeds of the Bexar coalition
  • We shall be heard: rights in black and brown from the sit-ins to Viva Kennedy
  • Trying to reach substantially unanimous agreement on limited political targets: the "Latin vote" and the first democratic coalition
  • Separating the wheat from the chaff: intra-racial divides beget inter-racial unity
  • They'll never separate us again: the multiracial democratic coalition on the march
  • New power for the Texas minorities: winning the battles, losing the war.