Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995

African American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years—longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Barr, in Black Texans, examines the African American experience in Texas during the periods of exploration and colonization, slavery, Reconstruction, the struggle to retain the freedoms gained, the twentieth—century urban experience, and the modern civil rights movement. Barr discusses each period ...