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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction. Lone Star Civil Rights: Histories, Memories, and Legacies 1
6. PART I. Violence and Resistance: African Americans in East Texas
7. 1. Ignored News and Forgotten History: The 1963 Prairie View Student Movement 23
8. 2. “Plumb Chaos”: Segregation and Integration in Deep East Texas 33
9. 3. “Something Was Lost”: Segregation, Integration, and Black Memory in the Golden Triangle 53
10. 4. Texas Time: Racial Violence, Place Making, and Remembering as Resistance in Montgomery County 71
11. PART II. Survival and Self-Determination: Chicano/a Struggles in South and West Texas
12. 5. The South-by- Southwest Borderlands’ Chicana/o Uprising: The Brown Berets, Black and Brown Alliances, and the Fight against Police Brutality in West Texas 93
13. 6. The Long Shadow of Héctor P. García in Corpus Christi 115
14. 7. “It Was Us against Us”: The Pharr Police Riot of 1971 and the People’s Uprising against El Jefe Político 131
15. 8. The 1970 Uvalde School Walkout 151
16. 9. “A Totality of Our Well-Being”: The Creation and Evolution of the Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe in South El Paso 177
17. PART III. Coalitions and Control: Black and Brown Liberation Struggles in Metropolitan Texas
18. 10. Contesting White Supremacy in Tarrant County 199
19. 11. Civil Rights in the “City of Hate”: Black and Brown Organizing against Police Brutality in Dallas 221
20. 12. Self-Determined Educational Spaces: Forging Race and Gender Power in Houston 245
21. 13. From Police Brutality to the “United Peoples Party”: San Antonio’s Hybrid SNCC Chapter, the Chicano/a Movement, and Political Change 259
22. 14. “You Either Support Democracy or You Don’t”: Structural Racism, Segregation, and the Struggle to Bring Single-Member Districts to Austin 287
23. PART IV. Inside the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project
24. 15. Recovering, Interpreting, and Disseminating the Hidden Histories of Civil Rights in Texas 305
25. Appendix: Selected Interview Transcripts 325
26. Acknowledgments 357
27. Notes 363
28. Contributors 439
29. Index 445