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 |
| Title | Quench the Lamp |
| Author | Alice Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Year published | 1991-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 173 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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