Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights, Paperback - Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez

Reducere. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of thei...

Reducere. DescriptionUp to 750, 000 Mexican American men served in World War II, earning more Medals of Honor and other decorations in proportion to their nu...

Inspired by a 1968 US Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nati...

This third edition of our ground-breaking publication, the first survey of Tejanos, has been completely updated to present a concise political, cul...

Reducere. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

Reducere. In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African American...

Reducere. Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far fr...

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Reducere. Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2002The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races--Indian, White, and Bla...

Reducere. In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the righ...

Reducere. This is a story of a great and noble man. A man of courage and determination who was willing to face arrest for leaving the government's reservatio...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Michael Rodriguez-MunizIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus.Number of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dime...

Reducere. DescriptionCovering more than one hundred years of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico tr...

DescriptionThe history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key ...

Reducere. Over thousands of years, Native Americans in what is now Texas passed down their ways of roasting, boiling, steaming, salting, drying, grinding, an...

Reducere. This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, li...

DescriptionThis is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an opt...

Reducere. In the early 1950s, a Mexican American man named Gus has become a top Texas civil rights attorney--a climb that has been bedeviled by his competing...

Reducere. Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independe...

How do we know about the thousands of people who marched in campaigns for civil rights for African Americans in the 1960s? It includes information ...

Provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews wi...

DescriptionIn 1830 census takers trudged door to door in San Antonio de Bexar and Nacogdoches gathering census data on the residents. Either they g...

The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement can be traced back to slavery and the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution gave Afric...

Reducere. Description"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides ...

DescriptionHistorians have amply recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands af...

Reducere. In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to creat...

Reducere. Including Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, read the stories of the amazing men an...

Reducere. Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Educat...

Reducere. In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes...

Reducere. La Rana ("The Frog") is two street blocks located between Crenshaw Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue in Torrance, California. La Rana has a colorful hi...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

Reducere. This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagIllustration(s): Illustrated in colour throughoutNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 261 x 315 x 31Cover ...