Table of Contents

Urban Slavery in the Southwest Human Property: The Black Slave in Harrison County, 1850-1860 Emancipation and the Black Family: A Case Study in Texas In Search of the Black Cowboy in Texas Black Urban Churches on the Southern Frontier, 1865-1900 William R. Shafter: Commanding Black Troops in West Texas John B. Rayner: A Study in Black Populist Leadership The El Paso Racial Crisis of 1900 The ""Waco Horror"": The Lynching of Jesse Washington Black Labor, the Black Middle Class, and Organized Protest along the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1883-1945 Semi-Professional African American Baseball in Texas before the Great Depression Black Culture in Urban Texas: A Lone Star Renaissance The Rise of the NAACP in Texas The Elusive Ballot: The Black Struggle against the Texas Democratic White Primary, 1932-1945 Black Houstonians and the ""Separate but Equal"" Doctrine: Carter W. Wesley versus Lulu B. White Direct Action at the University of Texas During the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965 The Texas Negro Peace Officers' Association: The Origins of Black Police Unionism