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Texans in World War II offers an informative look at the challenges
and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second
World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas
history covers topics from the African American and Tejano
experience to organized labor, from the expanding opportunities for
women to the importance of oil and agriculture. Texans in World War
II makes local the frequently studied social history of wartime,
bringing it home to Texas.An eye-opening read for Texans eager to
learn more about this defining era in their state's history, this
book will also prove deeply informative for scholars, students, and
general readers seeking detailed, definitive information about
World War II and its implications for daily life, economic growth,
and social and political change in the Lone Star State.
The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American
migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the
country's demographics but also black culture. In her thorough
study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move
from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black
activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly
fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns
in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription,
disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty
pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and
prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them.
Houston's close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in
transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and
industrial development prompted white families, commercial
businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit
blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and
wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government
records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the
migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the
migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the
neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions
they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people
they transformed in Houston.
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