| Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism Contributor(s): Guzman, Will (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252038924 ISBN-13: 9780252038921 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - History | African American |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015903878 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.05" W x 9.22" (1.20 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Locality - El Paso, Texas - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzm n delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzm n also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement. |