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Dallas had developed in the 1930s and continued into the 1960s. During that time, it was moderately successful in increasing African Americans' access to housing, education, and political power. Dallas's African American leaders had definitely not "accommodated" themselves completely to white power and white supremacy. 3 By the time that I published my essay on the movement in Dallas, historians generally had moved beyond the belief that Texas was exceptional and not a part of the South. Several historians had written essays on aspects of the struggle for civil rights in Houston and Austin, and on desegregation in the state's colleges and universities. Indeed, in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, research and scholarship on the civil rights movement in Texas exploded. But most of it, as indicated above, focused on large cities and the period of the 1950s through the 1960s.4 Civil Rights in Black and Brown not only addresses the lack of scholarly research on the civil rights movement in Texas that marred the 1970 report, but also expands on existing scholarship and provides a more comprehensive analysis of the movement in the state since 1970. While some studies have examined the

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Author

Max Krochmal (editor); Todd Moye (editor)

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477323809

Category

nonfiction