The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

CONTENTS......Page 6
FOREWORD (Arnoldo De León)......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (Larry Madaras)......Page 12
INTRODUCTION (Larry Madaras)......Page 14
PART I. Historiography......Page 20
One. “UNMANACLING” TEXAS RECONSTRUCTION: A Twenty-Year Perspective......Page 22
POSTSCRIPT TO PART I......Page 55
PART II. Freedom......Page 56
Two. RECONSTRUCTING BLACK FAMILIES: Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Records (Barry A. Crouch and Larry Madaras)......Page 58
Three. BLACK DREAMS AND WHITE JUSTICE......Page 73
Four. SEEKING EQUALITY: Houston Black Women during Reconstruction......Page 88
POSTSCRIPT TO PART II......Page 109
PART III. Reaction......Page 112
Five. A SPIRIT OF LAWLESSNESS: White Violence, Texas Blacks, 1865 –1868......Page 114
Six. CRISIS IN COLOR: Racial Separation in Texas during Reconstruction (Barry A. Crouch and L. J. Schultz)......Page 137
Seven. “ALL THE VILE PASSIONS”: The Texas Black Code of 1866......Page 153
Eight. THE FETTERS OF JUSTICE: Black Texans and the Penitentiary during Reconstruction......Page 178
POSTSCRIPT TO PART III......Page 200
PART IV. Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and African American Politicians......Page 202
Nine. GUARDIAN OF THE FREEDPEOPLE: Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and the Black Community......Page 204
Ten. HESITANT RECOGNITION Texas Black Politicians, 1865 –1900......Page 222
Eleven. SELF-DETERMINATION AND LOCAL BLACK LEADERS IN TEXAS......Page 246
Twelve. A POLITICAL EDUCATION George T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau......Page 260
POSTSCRIPT TO PART IV......Page 274
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY BARRY A. CROUCH......Page 276
INDEX......Page 280