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Title Anti-Black violence in twentieth-century Texas / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud ; foreword by W. Marvin Dulaney
Edition First edition
Published College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, 2015

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Contents Introduction: Racism's ugly past; white Texas's twentieth century actions / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Paris is burning: lynching and racial violence in Lamar County, 1890-1920 / Brandon Jett -- An "exciting occurrence": the lynching / Patricia Bernstein -- The Houston riot of 1917 / Calvin Smith -- Violence in a heathen land: the Longview race riot of 1919 / William M. Tuttle Jr . -- A "good job" in the early hours of the morning / Monte Akers -- The Sherman courthouse riot of 1930 / Edward Hake Phillips -- Violence in an "arsenal of democracy": the Beaumont race riot, 1943 / James A. Burran -- Houston and the TSU riot / Bernard Friedberg -- Loyal Garner arrest / Howard Swindle -- The Jasper lynching / Joyce E. King -- Bust town / Nate Blakeslee -- The beating of Billy Ray Johnson / Pamela Colloff -- Afterword: Twenty-first century Texas race relations / Bruce A. Glasrud
Summary Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas provides an arresting look at the history of violence against African Americans in Texas. From a lynching in Paris at the turn of the century to the 1998 murder of Jasper resident James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death behind a truck, this volume uncovers the violent side of race relations in the Lone Star State. Historian Bruce A. Glasrud has curated an essential contribution to Texas history and historiography that will also bring attention to a chapter in the state?s history that, for many, is still very much a part of the present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Hate crimes -- Texas
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Texas
African Americans -- Violence against -- Texas
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African Americans -- Violence against
African Americans -- Crimes against
Hate crimes
Race relations
SUBJECT Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Texas
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Glasrud, Bruce A., editor.
ISBN 162349334X
9781623493349