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Black Texans : A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995 - Barr

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ISBN
9780806128788

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
080612878X
ISBN-13
9780806128788
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038662330

Product Key Features

Edition
2
Book Title
Black Texans : a History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Civil Rights, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Features
New Edition
Genre
Law, Social Science, History
Author
Alwyn Barr
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.7 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Trade
LCCN
96-023097
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
976.400496/073
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
African American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years?longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Barr, in Black Texans, examines the African American experience in Texas during the periods of exploration and colonization, slavery, Reconstruction, the struggle to retain the freedoms gained, the twentieth-century urban experience, and the modern civil rights movement. Barr discusses each period of African-American history in terms of politics, violence, and legal status; labor and economic status; education; and social life. Black Texans includes the history of the buffalo soldiers and the cowboys on Texas cattle drives, along with the achievements of notable African-American individuals in Texas history, from the Estevan the explorer through legislator Norris Wright Cuney and boxer Jack Johnson to state senator Barbara Jordan. Barr carries the story up to the present day in this second edition, which includes a new preface a new chapter on the years 1970-95, and a revised index., African American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years--longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Barr, in Black Texans, examines the African American experience in Texas during the periods of exploration and colonization, slavery, Reconstruction, the struggle to retain the freedoms gained, the twentieth-century urban experience, and the modern civil rights movement. Barr discusses each period of African-American history in terms of politics, violence, and legal status; labor and economic status; education; and social life. Black Texans includes the history of the buffalo soldiers and the cowboys on Texas cattle drives, along with the achievements of notable African-American individuals in Texas history, from the Estevan the explorer through legislator Norris Wright Cuney and boxer Jack Johnson to state senator Barbara Jordan. Barr carries the story up to the present day in this second edition, which includes a new preface a new chapter on the years 1970-95, and a revised index., African American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years-longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Barr, in Black Texans, examines the African American experience in Texas during the periods of exploration and colonization, slavery, Reconstruction, the struggle to retain the freedoms gained, the twentieth-century urban experience, and the modern civil rights movement. Barr discusses each period of African-American history in terms of politics, violence, and legal status; labor and economic status; education; and social life. Black Texans includes the history of the buffalo soldiers and the cowboys on Texas cattle drives, along with the achievements of notable African-American individuals in Texas history, from the Estevan the explorer through legislator Norris Wright Cuney and boxer Jack Johnson to state senator Barbara Jordan. Barr carries the story up to the present day in this second edition, which includes a new preface a new chapter on the years 1970-95, and a revised index. Alwyn Barr is Professor of History at Texas Tech University and the author of Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politic, 1876-1906 and Texas in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835.
LC Classification Number
E185.93.T4B37 1996

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