Author: John Kern StreckerPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Chronicles of George Barnard
Author: John Kern StreckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
African Americans in Central Texas History
Author: Bruce A. GlasrudPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623497477
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship and the struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century, African Americans in Central Texas History: From Slavery to Civil Rights fills in the critical missing pieces of an often-overlooked region in the state’s history. African Americans first entered Central Texas with Spanish explorers, but few remained. White slave holders later brought black residents—as slaves—to this region. With the end of the Civil War, slavery may have ended but the brutalities of racial prejudice persisted. During Reconstruction, new attempts to ensure civil and political rights were resisted through terror, racial violence, and systemic denial of justice. Well into the twentieth century, segregation persisted, but years of individual and mobilized protest finally led to significant reform. Organizations such as the NAACP provided vital support. Before efforts to disenfranchise the black vote became successful, some politicians even courted black voters to further their own political agendas. African Americans in Central Texas History is a rare source that sheds light on the African American experience in the heart of the state.
Coacoochee's Bones
Author: Susan A. MillerPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"A man born to an elite family, Coacoochee used the power of his status in creative ways, and Miller uses his career to explain his leadership in terms of Seminole knowledge and governmental structure, showing that Coacoochee's concept of leadership was linked as closely to spiritual as to political or military imperatives. Her account offers a more nuanced understanding of the Seminole cosmos - particularly the reality governing Coacoochee's awareness of his own tribe's circumstances - and of long-standing borderlands disputes. She draws on Seminole, American, and Mexican sources to help untangle the histories of various emigrant tribes to the borderlands. She also examines the status of Seminoles today in light of the suppression of Coacoochee's story, including modern Seminole's attempts to recover their lost homeland at El Nacimiento."--BOOK JACKET.
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
Author: Comanche Captive
Author: Mary ClendeninPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595436331
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In 1844 Juana Cavasos was carried off into three years of captivity. The aristocratic young woman, used to a life of wealth, was suddenly thrust into a primitive existence on the harsh Texas plains. With only her indomitable courage and fortitude to sustain her, she managed to meld into the tribe's environment but always kept one thought in her mind. "Someday, someway I will return to my people."
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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