African Americans in South Texas history [electronic resource] / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud ; foreword by Cary D. Wintz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the African American experience in South Texas / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Defending the unnecessary: slavery in San Antonio in the 1850s / Larry P. Knight -- Just southwest of Dixie: Reconstruction in South Texas, 1865-1876 / Kenneth Wayne Howell -- "Wantonly maltreated and slain, simply because they are free": racial violence during reconstruction in South Texas / Rebecca A. Kosary -- After emancipation: Cologne, Texas / Sarah R. Massey -- The forging of the African American community in Corpus Christi, Texas, 1865-1900 / Rue Wood -- Lola and Leon Houck versus the Southern Pacific Railway Company / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond -- The colored trainmen of America: Kingsville black labor and the railroads / Jennifer Borrer -- Divided we stand: Jim Crow education in Victoria, Texas, 1901-1966 / Edward Byerly -- Maury Maverick and racial politics in San Antonio, Texas, 1938-1941 / Judith Kaaz Doyle -- The Houston Eagles and the end of the Negro leagues / Rob Fink -- Corpus Christi's Galvan Ballroom: music and multiculturalism in the 1950s / David Louzon -- Racial change on the southern periphery: the case of San Antonio, Texas, 1960-1965 / Robert A. Goldberg -- "A pearl of great price": socio-literary activism in the life and writings of Olga Samples Davis / Jeanette Nyda Passty -- Blacks in South Texas: selected bibliography / Bruce A. Glasrud.

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