Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era - Couverture rigide

Krochmal, Max

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1469626756 ISBN 13 : 9781469626758

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

Synopsis

This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboyconservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organising,liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s,Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracyin Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white laborand community activists gradually came together to empower the state’smarginalised minorities. At the ballot box and in the streets, these diverseactivists demanded not only integration but economic justice, labor rights,and real political power for all. Their efforts gave rise to the DemocraticCoalition of the 1960s, a militant, multiracial alliance that would takeon―and eventually overthrow―both Jim Crow and Juan Crow.

Using rare archival sources and original oral history interviews,Krochmal reveals the often-overlooked democratic foundations and liberaltradition of one of our nation’s most conservative states. Blue Texasremembers the many forgotten activists who, by crossing racial lines andbuilding coalitions, achieved a degree of economic and political democracyin their cities and state that would have been scarcely imaginable just adecade earlier.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Max Krochmal is assistant professor of history at Texas Christian University, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469626756
• ISBN 13: 9781469626758
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible