Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

by Max Krochmal

Book Overview

This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together to empower the state's marginalized minorities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661519
• ISBN13: 9781469661513
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"