Quench the Lamp by Alice Taylor

Quench the Lamp by Alice Taylor

Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book:

Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University

Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886-1896-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington

Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s-1910s -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University

Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair

Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word

Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954-1968-David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University

Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College

This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.

Alice Taylor, Reader in Medieval History, King's College London

Alice Taylor is Lecturer in Medieval History at King's College London. She was born in London and studied History at St Peter's College, Oxford. After receiving her doctorate from Oxford in 2009, she was a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge until 2011. She has published widely on many
aspects of medieval Scottish history in journals such as Historical Research, The Scottish Historical Review, and The Haskins Society Journal, and has received prizes for her work from the Institute of Historical Research and the Scottish History Society. This is her first book.

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ISBN 13	9780312054939
ISBN 10	0312054939
Titel	Quench the Lamp
Autor	Alice Taylor
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-03-01
Seitenanzahl	173
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.