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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875658254/claiming-sunday/
The story is told through a richly detailed narrative revealing the lives of the enslaved on the Devereux Plantation and through interviews with their modern-day descendants. Julien Devereux and his elderly father, John, came to Texas in 1841 from Alabama. Julien first settled in Montgomery County and then moved to Rusk County in 1846. When he died in 1856 he owned 10,500 acres of East Texas cotton land and seventy-five enslaved Black Americans. Julien’s widow, Sarah Landrum Devereux, maintained the plantation through the Civil War.
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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875658131/ophelia-and-the-freedmens-school/
Ophelia and the Freedmen’s School is based on an actual school established in 1867 in Lavaca, Texas. The author’s great-grandfather, John Ogilvie Stevenson, was the teacher of the Lavaca school and he left many documents, letters, and stories about his experiences there.Ten-year-old Ophelia at first resents her black classmates, whom she perceives as “not like her.” But through shared experiences with them—the joy of learning, a yellow fever epidemic, and fear of the KKK, which threatens the life of their beloved teacher and closure of the school—her attitude changes.
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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875656250/the-garden-of-eden/
Tucked in a bend of the Trinity River a few minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the Garden of Eden neighborhood has endured for well over a century as a homeplace for freed African American slaves and their descendants.
Among the earliest inhabitants in the Garden, Major and Malinda Cheney assembled over 200 acres of productive farmland on which they raised crops and cattle, built a substantial home for their children, and weathered a series of family crises. Major and Malinda Cheney’s great-great-grandson, Drew Sanders, recounts engaging tales of the family’s life against the backdrop of Fort Worth and Tarrant County history—among them stories about the famous family Sunday dinners (recipes included).
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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875656526/incident-at-ashton/
In Ashton, a fictional town in the deep South, an elderly black man walks into the courthouse one day and makes a simple request. He wants to register to vote. The clerk tries to discourage him, but the old man is adamant. A few days later his body is pulled from the river, a gaping wound in his head. A few years earlier, this incident would have gone unnoticed in Ashton. But that time has passed and a young newspaperman demands a full measure of justice from the townspeople.
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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875653815/calvin-littlejohn/
Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth in 1934 during the Jim Crow era, when mainstream newspapers wouldn’t publish pictures of black citizens and white photographers wouldn’t take pictures in black schools.
Littlejohn began what would become a lifelong career of documenting the black community. His natural aptitude for drawing had been honed by correspondence courses in graphic design and a stint in a photo shop where he learned about the camera, lighting, and the use of shadows.
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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875652825/black-frontiersman/
After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U.S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. He went on to enjoy a career as a land surveyor, scholar of mining and land laws, congressional aide, and writer and translator. Black Frontiersman is Flipper’s account of his service with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and the years that followed. Flipper’s memoir was first published in 1963 as Negro Frontiersman, edited by Theodore Harris.
Henry O. Flipper was posthumously vindicated, his discharge changed to honorable, and his body reburied with military honors.
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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875652764/east-texas-daughter/
Raised in poverty in Tyler, Texas, Helen Harris Green went on to become the first black woman admitted into a Dallas school of professional nursing, the first black nurse-manager of the Methodist Hospital of Dallas, the first black department director at Timberlawn Psychiatric Center, the first black president of the Texas Society of Healthcare Educators, the first black to be on the board of directors for the TSHE division of the Texas Hospital Association, and the first black chair of the board of directors of TSHE. In this moving and personal account, she details the battles she fought and insults she endured to reach her professional goals.
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https://www.tamupress.com/book/9780875651866/high-john-the-conqueror/
Set in the river bottoms of southeast Texas where the Navasota and Brazos rivers come together, High John the Conqueror tells the story of African American cotton farmers struggling to hold on to their land during the last years of the Great Depression.
In telling the story of the Websters and John Cheney, John W. Wilson captures the hopelessness of poor southern blacks during the Depression.
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