Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas Book

Acknowledgments xi

Acronyms and Abbreviations xvii

Introduction 1

1 Advancing the Cause of Democracy: The Origins of Protest in the Long Civil Rights Movement 13

2 Sleeping on Another Man's Wounds: The Battle for Integrated Schools in the 1950s 39

3 Nothing but Victory Can Stop Us: Direct Action and Political Action in the Early 1960s 72

4 Venceremos: The Evolution of Civil Rights in the Mid-1960s 102

5 Am I My Brother's Keeper?: Ecumenical Activism in the Lone Star State 130

6 The Day of Nonviolence Is Past: The Era of Brown Power and Black Power in Texas 154

7 Pawns, Puppets, and Scapegoats: School Desegregation in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 195

Conclusion 224

Notes 241

Bibliography 305

Index 333