"Texas is far from a perfect place in this 'rights' business, and these essays in Seeking Inalienable Rights make it plain that the emphasis has been on 'seeking' (meaning that what is considered inalienable has been at least suppressed)." - Archie P. McDonald, Stephen F. Austin State University "An informative collection of articles illustrating the multifarious ways in which Texans over time perceived the meaning of inalienable rights.'" - Arnoldo De Leon, professor of history at Angelo State University "African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth Century Texas: Early Organizing in the Search for Equality" - Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University "Texodusters: Texans and the Exodus of 1879" - Bryan M. Jack, Winston-Salem State University "Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886-1896" - George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington "Finding Jack (and Sue) McQuinney: African American Activists in Rural Progressive-Era Texas" - Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University "Fighting on the Homefront: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in the First World War" - James B. Seymour Jr., Lone Star College, Cy Fair "Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio" - Patricia Gower, University of the Incarnate Word "The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Moderate Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954-1968" - David Chrisman University of Mary Hardin-Baylor "Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas" - Steve Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College "Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston" - Brian D. Behnken, University of California - Davis"