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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Black Dixie. College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, c1992 (OCoLC)606925775 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Beeth; Cary D Wintz |
| ISBN: | 0890964947 9780890964941 |
| OCLC Number: | 24796804 |
| Description: | xiv, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Historians, Houston, and History. Historians, Houston, and History / Howard Beeth -- pt. II. Slavery and Freedom: Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Houston. Introduction. Use and Distribution of Slave Labor in Harris County, Texas, 1836-60 / Tamara Miner Haygood. Seeking Equality: Houston Black Women during Reconstruction / Barry A. Crouch. Richard Allen: The Chequered Career of Houston's First Black State Legislator / Merline Pitre -- pt. III. Economic and Social Development in Black Houston during the Era of Segregation. Introduction. The Emergence of Black Business in Houston, Texas: A Study of Race and Ideology, 1919-45 / James M. SoRelle. "Yes, We Have No Jitneys!": Transportation Issues in Houston's Black Community, 1914-24 / Frances Dressman. Houston's Colored Citizens: Activities and Conditions among the Negro Population in the 1920s / Clifton E. Richardson, Sr. Sidelights on Houston Negroes as Seen by an Associate of Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1930 / Lorenzo J. Greene -- pt. IV. Segregation, Violence, and Civil Rights: Race Relations in Twentieth-Century Houston. Introduction. Race Relations in "Heavenly Houston," 1919-45 / James M. SoRelle. Black Houstonians and the White Democratic Primary, 1920-45 / Robert V. Haynes. The Houston Sit-In Movement of 1960-61 / F. Kenneth Jensen. Operation Breadbasket in Houston, 1966-78 / Cecile E. Harrison and Alice K. Laine. Housing Problems and Prospects in Contemporary Houston / Robert D. Bullard. Organizing in the Private City: The Case of Houston, Texas / Robert Fisher. |
| Series Title: | Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University, no. 41. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz. |
Abstract:
Sections, the book covers a broad range of both time and subjects. The first section analyzes the development of scholarly consciousness and interest in the history of black Houston; slavery in nineteenth-century Houston is covered in the second section; economic and social development in Houston in the era of segregation are looked at in the third section; and segregation, violence, and civil rights in twentieth-century Houston are dealt with in the final section.
Collectively, the contents of Black Dixie utilize the full range of primary sources available to scholars studying the black South. These include such traditional material as newspapers and diaries as well as newer techniques involving quantification and statistical analysis. The editors' remarks relate the individual essays to one another as well as placing them within the context of scholarly literature on the subject. Hence Black Dixie will serve both as a resource.
And as a model for the study of black urban culture in Texas and throughout the South.
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