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03256aam a22005178i 4500 001 57B468888B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 160216s2016 txu b 001 0deng c 010 $a 2016007617 020 $a 1623494826 020 $a 9781623494827 035 $a (OCoLC)940455244 040 $a TXA/DLC $b eng $e rda $c TXA $d DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-tx 050 00 $a E185.93.T4 $b P57 2016 082 00 $a 305.896/073076409034 $2 23 100 1 $a Pitre, Merline, $d 1943- $e author. 245 10 $a Through many dangers, toils and snares : $b black leadership in Texas, 1868-1898 / $c Merline Pitre. 250 $a Texas A&M University Press edition. 250 $a Revised edition. 263 $a 1609 264 1 $a College Station : $b Texas A&M University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a pages cm 534 $p Originally published: $b 1st ed. $c Austin, Tex. : Eakin Press, ÌÆ°1985. 500 $a Subtitle in previous editions varies. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Foreword / by W. Marvin Dulaney -- Preface to the new edition -- Introduction -- The toils -- The making of biographical profiles -- The Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 -- The Reconstruction legislature -- Blacks at the crossroad 1872-1875 -- The post-Reconstruction legislatures -- The snares -- White over black in party conventions -- A thorn in the side -- Miscalculation or manipulation -- Fusion or fission -- The danger -- Methods of removal -- Rejection, reduction, retrenchment -- The personalities -- Neither all good nor all bad -- A preview -- Matthew Gaines: the militant -- George T. Ruby: the party loyalist -- Richard Allen: the opportunist -- Robert Lloyd Smith: the accommodationist -- Norris Wright Cuney: the climber of sorts -- Postscript -- Appendix A: Roster of black legislators of Texas -- Appendix B: Roster of black legislators' committee assignments -- Appendix C: Black legislators who were delegates at Republican national conventions -- Appendix D: Summary of background of Texas black politicians, 1868-1890 -- Appendix E: Twentieth century black legislators -- Appendix G: A thirty year comparison of the 19th and 20th century legislators -- Appendix H: Correspondence of a black lawmaker. 650 0 $a African American leadership $z Texas. 650 0 $a African Americans $z Texas $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a African American politicians $z Texas $v Biography. 651 0 $a Texas $x Politics and government $y 1865-1950. 651 0 $a Texas $x Race relations. 650 7 $a African American leadership. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799219 650 7 $a African American politicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799310 650 7 $a African Americans $x Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799659 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 651 7 $a Texas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210336 648 7 $a 1865-1950 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161103023159.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57B468888B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search