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Civil Rights in Texas
This guide provides resources for the study of the history of civil rights in Texas.
San Antonio and South Texas
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African Americans in South Texas History by Bruce A. Glasrud
Call Number: E185.93.T4 A39 2011- African Americans and Race Relations in San Antonio, Texas, 1867-1937 by Kenneth MasonCall Number: F394.S29 N46 1998
Tejano South Texas: by Daniel D. Arreola
Call Number: F395 .M5 A77 2002The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000 by Richard A. Buitron
Call Number: F394.S2119 M5135 2004The Illusion of Inclusion: The Untold Political Story of San Antonio by Rodolfo Rosales
Call Number: F394.S29 M57 2000Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas by Anthony Quiroz
Call Number: F394 .V6 Q57 2005- The Rise of Chicano Middle Class Politics in San Antonio 1951 to 1985 by Rodolfo RosalesCall Number: F394 .S29 M572 1991
- Eastside, 1970: Neighborhood Analysis by Alamo Area Council of GovernmentsCall Number: JS1425.A43 E2 1970
- Chicano Revolt in a Texas Town by John S. ShockleyCall Number: F394 .C83S56 1974
Central Texas
African Americans in Central Texas History
Call Number: E185.93.T4 A385 2019
Dallas & North Texas
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- Behold the People: R.C. Hickman's Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949-1961 by R. C. HickmanCall Number: F394 .D219 N44 1994
- Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio by Shirley AchorCall Number: F394 .D219 M52 1978
- The Mexican American Frontier Experience in Twentieth Century Northwest Texas by Yolanda G. RomeroCall Number: F395.M5 R6 1993
Houston & East Texas
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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company by Michael R. Botson
Call Number: HD6517 .T4 B67 2005
West Texas
Slavery to Integration: Black Americans in West Texas by Bruce A. Glasrud; Paul H. Carlson; Tai D. Kreidler
Call Number: E185.93 .T4 S49 2007
Archival Collections
- San Antonio Black History CollectionThe San Antonio Black History Collection was brought together by Lewis Fisher while conducting research on San Antonio history. The collection is made up of printed materials that reflect African-American life in San Antonio in the 20th century. San Antonio funeral homes, schools, and churches are the major subjects in this material. The collection has been arranged into the following categories: businesses, churches, clubs and organizations, education, history, military, newspapers and magazines, and photographs. A key holding is Snap, a weekly local publication that covered San Antonio politics, social events, and current events from an African-American perspective.
Oral History Interviews
- Interview with Gladys House and Holly Hogrobrook, 1994Interviewees discuss the Freedman's Town settlement and neighborhood of Houston. The Fourth Ward in Houston, also sometimes referred to as Freedmen's Town, is one of that city's most important African-American historic communities. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was the center of black cultural and professional life in the city. By the early twentieth century it housed prominent educational institutions and the majority of the black physicians and attorneys, while at night its bars and night spots attracted whites and blacks who came to hear great blues and jazz musicians.
- ITC Oral History Collection-Civil RightsAdditional oral history interviews related to civil rights can be found in the ITC Oral History Collection.
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of the Multiracial Freedom Struggles in TexasNot one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. While most research on American race relations has utilized a binary analytical lens—examining either “black” vs. “white” or “Anglo” vs. “Mexican,” this project collects, interprets, and disseminates new oral history interviews with members of all three groups.