Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston

Tex.: Texas A & M University Press, College Station, 1992. 1st ed. Large octavo with glossy boards and gilt spine title; brown and white pictorial DJ; xiv, 294 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine with foxing to top edge; VG (+) DJ with sunning to upper edges and spine and light edgewear. Hardcover. ISBN: 0890964947

An innovative contribution to the growing body of research about urban African-American culture in the South, Black Dixie is the first anthology to track the black experience in a single southern city across the entire slavery/post-slavery continuum. It combines the best previously published scholarship about black Houston and little-known contemporary eye-witness accounts of the city with fresh, unpublished essays by historians and social scientists.

Contents: pt. I. Historians, Houston, and History. Historians, Houston, and History / Howard Beeth. pt. II. Slavery and Freedom: Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Houston. Introduction. Use and Distribution of Slave Labor in Harris County, Texas, 1836-60 / Tamara Miner Haygood. Seeking Equality: Houston Black Women during Reconstruction / Barry A. Crouch. Richard Allen: The Chequered Career of Houston's First Black State Legislator / Merline Pitre. pt. III. Economic and Social Development in Black Houston during the Era of Segregation. Introduction. The Emergence of Black Business in Houston, Texas: A Study of Race and Ideology, 1919-45 / James M. SoRelle. "Yes, We Have No Jitneys!": Transportation Issues in Houston's Black Community, 1914-24 / Frances Dressman. Houston's Colored Citizens: Activities and Conditions among the Negro Population in the 1920s / Clifton E. Richardson, Sr. Sidelights on Houston Negroes as Seen by an Associate of Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1930 / Lorenzo J. Greene. pt. IV. Segregation, Violence, and Civil Rights: Race Relations in Twentieth-Century Houston. Introduction. Race Relations in "Heavenly Houston," 1919-45 / James M. SoRelle. Black Houstonians and the White Democratic Primary, 1920-45 / Robert V. Haynes. The Houston Sit-In Movement of 1960-61 / F. Kenneth Jensen. Operation Breadbasket in Houston, 1966-78 / Cecile E. Harrison and Alice K. Laine. Housing Problems and Prospects in Contemporary Houston / Robert D. Bullard. Organizing in the Private City: The Case of Houston, Texas / Robert Fisher.

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