TY  - GEN
T1  - Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands : Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism
A1  - Guzmán, Will
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn909028083
AB  - In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzmán delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzmán also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature on African Americans in the Southwest, Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands explores seldom-studied corners of the Black past and the civil rights movement.
CN  - E185.97.N58
SN  - 9780252096884
SN  - 0252096886
SN  - 0252082060
SN  - 9780252082061
SN  - 9780252038921
SN  - 0252038924
KW  - Nixon, Lawrence A., : 1883-1966.
KW  - Nixon, Lawrence A., : 1883-1966
KW  - African Americans : Texas : El Paso : Biography.
KW  - African Americans : Civil rights : Texas : El Paso : History.
KW  - African Americans : Segregation : Texas : El Paso : History.
KW  - African Americans : Suffrage : Texas.
KW  - Noirs américains : Texas : El Paso : Biographies.
KW  - Noirs américains : Droits : Texas : El Paso : Histoire.
KW  - Noirs américains : Ségrégation : Texas : El Paso : Histoire.
KW  - Noirs américains : Suffrage : Texas.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Civil Rights.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Human Rights.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Civil Rights.
KW  - African American physicians
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African Americans : Civil rights
KW  - African Americans : Segregation
KW  - African Americans : Suffrage
KW  - Texas
KW  - Texas : El Paso
KW  - collective biographies.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -