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  • Born to Serve
    Merline Pitre
    Texas Southern University is often said to have been 'conceived in sin.' Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an 'emergency' state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full history of TSU, from its founding, through the many varied and defining challeng...
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  • Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares
    Merline Pitre
    Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares, originally published in 1985, was the first book to make an in-depth examination of the cadre of African American lawmakers in Texas after the Civil War. Those few books that addressed the subject at all treated black legislators en masse and offered little or nothing about their individual histories. Early scholars tended to present isol...
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    24,49 €

  • In Struggle Against Jim Crow
    Merline Pitre
    African American women have played significant roles in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality, but relatively little is known about many of these leaders and activists.Most accounts of the civil rights movement focus on male leaders and the organizations they led, leaving a dearth of information about the countless black women who were the backbone of the struggle in lo...
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    26,57 €