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"Since 2014, Max Krochmal and J. Todd Moye have been working with a team of over a dozen historians to travel the state of Texas collecting oral histories of the Civil Rights era, from both African American and Mexican American activists. With financial support from the NEH and Krochmal's and Moye's institutions, the team conducted over 500 interviews, and then wrote essays on the state's small towns, big cities, and places in between. This book features over a dozen such essays that serve, in the editors' words, "to reconstruct the history of the overlapping African American and Chicano/a freedom movements across the Lone Star State. Not one but two insurgencies challenged the state's twin caste systems, and they did so in intimate conversation. They flourished in unlikely places, urban and rural, and spanned decades before and after 1965, continuing into the 21st century. Despite the slow pace of change, activists of all ages forged powerful movements for self-determination. Some filed lawsuits for school integration and canvassed door-to-door to win political power. Others picketed to demand criminal justice reform and sought to improve public services in their cities. Still more activists joined unions and built neighborhood associations to challenge ongoing economic injustice. Organizers pointed out the ways in which integration often failed to produce equity, opting instead to build their own community-controlled healthcare, educational, and cultural institutions. Women played leading roles throughout these various campaigns, challenging the sexism of their comrades as well as that of the larger society. The polyglot activists also developed a variety of relationships with one another, from protracted collaboration to stiff competition--and everything in between." In addition to the oral history essays, the project features overview essays by the editors on each of the three regions treated (East Texas, South and West Texas, and Metropolitan Texas). A fourth section of the manuscript takes readers "inside" the project, explaining how this major collaboration among scholars came together and was executed. It also shares interview excerpts with nearly thirty subjects. (The full text of interviews, along with other supplementary materials, will be available on a dedicated website.)"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / W. Marvin Dulaney
• Lone Star civil rights: histories, memories, and legacies / Max Krochmal
• Part I. Violence and resistance: African Americans in East Texas. Ignored news and forgotten history: the 1963 Prairie View student movement / Moisés A. Gurrola
• "Plumb chaos:" segregation and integration in deep East Texas / Meredith May
• "Something was lost": segregation, integration, and black memory in the Golden Triangle / Eladio Bobadilla
• Texas time: civil rights, memory and place in Montgomery County, Texas / Jasmin C. Howard
• Part II. Survival and self-determination: Chicano/a struggles in South and West Texas. The South by Southwest borderlands' Chicana/o uprising: the Brown Berets, black and brown alliances, and the fight against police brutality in West Texas / Joel Zapata
• The long shadow of Héctor P. García in Corpus Christi / James B. Wall
• "It was us against us": the Pharr Police Riot of 1971 and the people's uprising against el jefe politico / David Robles
• The 1970 Uvalde School Walkout / Vinicio Sinta and Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
• "A totality of our well-being:" the creation and evolution of Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe in South El Paso, Texas / Sandra I. Enríquez
• Part III. Coalitions and control: black/brown liberation struggles in metropolitan Texas
• Contesting white supremacy in Tarrant County / Todd Moye
• Civil Rights in the "City of Hate:" black and brown organizing against police brutality in Dallas / Katherine Bynum
• Self-determined educational spaces: forging race and gender power in Houston / Samantha M. Rodriguez
• From police brutality to the "United Peoples Party": San Antonio's hybrid SNCC chapter, the Chicano Movement, and political change / Max Krochmal
• "You either support democracy or you don't": structural racism, segregation, and the struggle to bring single-member districts to Austin / Todd Moye
• Part IV. Inside the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project
• Recovering, interpreting, and disseminating the hidden histories of struggle in Texas / Max Krochmal.

Contributors:

Krochmal, Max , editor

Moye, J. Todd , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Civil rights in black and brown (First edition; Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021 — ISBN 9781477323786; LCCN 2020054619)

Related Series:

Jess and Betty Jo Hay series

Subjects:

Civil rights movements — Texas — History

Chicano movement — Texas — History

Civil rights workers — Texas — Interviews

African American political activists — Texas — Interviews

Mexican American political activists — Texas — Interviews

Civil rights movements

Chicano movement

Civil rights workers

African American political activists

Mexican American political activists

United States

Texas

Genres:

Essays

History

Interviews

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

F395.A1 C585 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781477323809 (ebook)
1477323805
9781477323816 (ebook)
1477323813
9781477323786 (hardback) [Invalid]
9781477323793 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020054620

OCLC Numbers:

1227860766