Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898

by Merline Pitre

Overview

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 isolated events of the violence and political deterrents inflicted upon black voters but said very little about how these obstacles affected black lawmakers.

Author Merline Pitre has departed from this traditional method and relied upon the untapped original materials found on these black lawmakers. This third edition features a new preface and extended, updated appendixes, ensuring that this study will remain useful to political scientists, sociologists, and historians of Texas political history, Afro-American history, and revisionists of Reconstruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623494834
Publisher:	Texas A&M University Press
Publication date:	07/25/2016
Series:	Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

MERLINE PITRE is the author or editor of numerous books, including Black Women in Texas History, In Struggle against Jim Crow, and Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement, winner of the Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women.

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