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

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African American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years―longer than in some other region of the US. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Barr, in Black Texans, examines the African American experience in Texas right through the periods of exploration and colonization, slavery, Reconstruction, the struggle to retain the freedoms gained, the twentieth-century urban experience, and the brand new civil rights movement. Barr discusses every period of African-American history in the case 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, together with the achievements of notable African-American individuals in Texas history, from the 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 on this second edition, which incorporates a new preface a new chapter at the years 1970-95, and a revised index.


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