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title	:	Black Texans : A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995
author	:	Barr, Alwyn.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	080612878X
print isbn13	:	9780806128788
ebook isbn13	:	9780806170947
language	:	English
subject	African Americans--Texas--History, Texas--History.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	E185.93.T4B37 1996eb
ddc	:	976.400496/073
subject	:	African Americans--Texas--History, Texas--History.

Black Texans A History of African Americans in Texas 15281995 Second Edition By Alwyn Barr University of Oklahoma Press Norman and London

Page ii Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barr, Alwyn. Black Texans : a history of African Americans in Texas, 15281995 / by Alwyn Barr. 2nd ed. p. cm. Originally published : Austin, Tex. : Jenkins Pub. Co., 1973. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8061-2878-X (alk. paper) 1. Afro-AmericansTexasHistory. 2. Texas History. I. Title. E185.93.T4B37 1996 976.400496'073dc2096-23097 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 1973 by the Jenkins Book Publishing Company, Inc., transferred 1995 to the University of Oklahoma Press. Second Edition, with new Preface, Chapter 7, and Index copyright 1996 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition, 1973. First paperback printing, 1996. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page iii Contents List of Illustrations iv Preface to the Second Edition v I. Explorers and Settlers 1 II. Slaves 13 III. Freedmen 39 IV. Voters and Laborers 70 V. Outsiders 112 VI. People of Anger and Hope 173 VII. People of Struggle and Progress 230 Bibliographical Essay 248 Index 279

Page iv Illustrations 1. Ninth Cavalry 117 2. Henry O. Flipper 118 3. Norris Wright Cuney 119 4. Robert Lloyd Smith 120 5. Bill Pickett 121 6. Waco lynching 122 7. Lawrence A. Nixon 123 8. Charles Bellinger 124 9. Etta Moten 125 10. Mary Branch 126 11. A. Maceo Smith 127 12. Heman Sweatt 128 13. Mrs. Charles White 129 14. Mack H. Hannah Jr. 130 15. Barbara Jordan 131 16. John Biggers 132

Page v Preface to the Second Edition Black people have lived in Texas, though not continuously, for more than four hundred yearslonger than in any other section of the United Statesconsiderably longer than the dominant Anglo population of the state, as long as the Spanish ancestors of its Mexican Americans, and preceded only by the forebears of its few remaining American Indian citizens. The African-American population in Texas declined in percentage from a peak of about 30 percent, between 1860 and 1870, to 12 percent in 1990, but increased in actual numbers to more than two million. Thus the longer span of black history and

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