A history of Fort Worth in black & white : 165 years of African-American life

A history of Fort Worth in black & white : 165 years of African-American life /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Selcer, Richard F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2015]
Edition:Edition: first.
Subjects:
African Americans > Texas > Fort Worth.
Fort Worth (Tex.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Fort Worth (Tex.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Fort Worth (Tex.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
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Table of Contents:
  • The antebellum and Civil War years (1849-1865)
  • Reconstruction and city beginnings (1865-1879)
  • A growing sense of identity (1880-1900)
  • The world of Jim Crow (turn-of-the-century through the 1920s)
  • World War I: Jim Crow comes marching home (1917-1919)
  • Jim Crow rules!
  • The depression, or, old man Trinity just keeps on rollin' along
  • World War II: a different kind of 'two-front' war
  • Jim Crow in retreat: the early civil rights years
  • Jim Crow, R.I.P.: the later civil rights years
  • The race is not always to the swift (the 1960s-today)
  • A few conclusions
  • Side-bars
  • Hagar Tucker
  • William M. McDonald
  • Hiram McGar
  • Jeff Daggett
  • Enoch Jackson
  • Lonnell Cooper
  • Isaiah M. Terrell
  • Hazel Harvey Peace
  • Calvin Littlejohn
  • Reby Cary
  • Lenora Rolla
  • Endnotes.

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