Introduction: Betwixt old ways and new freedoms: African Americans in central Texas / Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles -- Slavery and its aftermath -- Livestock and slavery in north central Texas: a view from Stephens County / Deborah M. Liles -- Slavery on the frontier: the peculiar institution in central Texas / William Dean Carrigan -- The transition from slave potter to free potter: the Wilson potteries of Guadalupe County / E. Joe Brackner Jr -- Black political power and criminal justice: Washington County, 1868-1884 / Donald G. Nieman -- The African American exodus from Comanche County / Billy Bob Lightfoot -- In pursuit of freedom -- Black trail drivers of Caldwell County / Donaly E. Brice -- Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: a Coryell County freedom colony / Rebecca Sharpless -- The African American military experience in central Texas, 1863-1900 / James T. Matthews -- William Madison McDonald: business and fraternal leader / Bruce A. Glasrud -- The Waco horror: the lynching of Jesse Washington / James M. Sorelle -- Striving for success and civil rights -- The life and work of Dr. Beadie Eugene Conner: an African American physician in Jim Crow Texas / Keith Volanto -- Aboard the wrong ship in the right books: Doris Miller and historical accuracy / Neil G. Sapper -- The boomerang migration of Lillian B. Horace / Karen Kossie-Chernyshev -- Sepia record as a forum for negotiating women's roles / Sherilyn Brandenstein -- Reluctance versus reality: the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-1956 / Ronald E. Marcello -- Texas voices: the 1963 civil rights march on Austin / Martin Kulhmann.
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