Fighting their own battles
Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas
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Author
Publication
2011 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
86,750 words, Guess
Page Count
347 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24914770M
- ISBN-139780807834787
- ISBN-100807834785
- OCLC Control Number668197699
- OCLC Control Numberfightingtheirown00behn
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2010047529
Classifications
- DDC305.8009764
- LCCF395.M5 B56 2011
Description
Behnken examines the history of both the African American and Mexican American civil rights struggles in Texas, exploring the racial prejudices, cultural dissimilarities, class tensions, organizational differences, and geographical distance that all worked to create two separate civil rights movements.
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