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Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780806128788 Author(s): Alwyn Barr Format: Paperback Year: 1996 Edition: 2nd Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Dimensions: 138 x 217 x 20 (w x l x h) Pages: 304

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Description: African Americans have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years — longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Barr, in Black Texans, examines the African American experience in Texas during the periods of exploration and colonization, slavery, Reconstruction, the struggle to retain the freedoms gained, the twentieth-century urban experience, and the modern civil rights movement. Barr discusses each period of African-American history in terms of politics, violence, and legal status; labor and economic status; education; and social life.

Black Texans includes the history of the buffalo soldiers and the cowboys on Texas cattle drives, along with the achievements of notable African-American individuals in Texas history, from Estevan the explorer through legislator Norris Wright Cuney and boxer Jack Johnson to state senator Barbara Jordan. Barr carries the story up to the present day in this second edition, which includes a new preface, a new chapter on the years 1970-95, and a revised index.

"Written in an enthusiastic and scholarly style, this book about black people in Texas is an excellent survey.... Black Texans is a very fine contribution to the field". -Journal of American History.

"A brilliant study by a leading authority, Black Texans will long remain an outstand