The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement
Autor Jim Harringtonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 sep 2025
Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477332344
ISBN-10: 1477332340
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 1477332340
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Cuprins
- Foreword by Lora J. Livingston
- Introduction: Past as Prologue—Justice on the Horizon?
- 1. The Early Years: From Michigan’s Strawberry Fields to South Texas
- 2. South Texas in the 1960s and 1970s: Upheaval, Resistance, and the Origin of the South Texas Project
- 3. Police Brutality, Act I: McAllen’s C-Shift Animals
- 4. Texas Grand Jury Reform: Sidelining the Good Old Boys
- 5. Farmworkers and Colonias on the Move
- 6. The Texas ERA Comes to the Rescue of Farmworkers and Minority Voters
- 7. Untethering from the Texas Civil Liberties Union: Birth of the Texas Civil Rights Project
- 8. Convincing Texas Businesses and Government to Respect People with Disabilities
- 9. The People Push Back: Free Speech and Assembly
- 10. Police Brutality, Act II: The More Cops Change . . .
- 11. Violence against Women and Sexual Bullying
- 12. Privacy: AIDS, Lie Detectors, and the Case of the Purloined Baby Blood
- 13. Daring to Sue the Supreme Court of Texas on Behalf of Low-Income Texans
- 14. Continuing the Good Fight: Other Fronts
- 15. International Human Rights: Solidarity
- 16. What Made TCRP Unique?
- 17. Final Thoughts: Keeping the Marathon Going
- Afterword by Greg Casar
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- Index