Blue Texas : the making of a multiracial Democratic coalition in the Civil Rights era /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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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.