Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice.
Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice.
* Foreword by Lora J. Livingston * Introduction: Past as Prologue—Justice on the Horizon? * 1. The Early Years: From Michigan’s Strawberry Fields to South Texas * 2. South Texas in the 1960s and 1970s: Upheaval, Resistance, and the Origin of the South Texas Project * 3. Police Brutality, Act I: McAllen’s C-Shift Animals * 4. Texas Grand Jury Reform: Sidelining the Good Old Boys * 5. Farmworkers and Colonias on the Move * 6. The Texas ERA Comes to the Rescue of Farmworkers and Minority Voters * 7. Untethering from the Texas Civil Liberties Union: Birth of the Texas Civil Rights Project * 8. Convincing Texas Businesses and Government to Respect People with Disabilities * 9. The People Push Back: Free Speech and Assembly * 10. Police Brutality, Act II: The More Cops Change . . . * 11. Violence against Women and Sexual Bullying * 12. Privacy: AIDS, Lie Detectors, and the Case of the Purloined Baby Blood * 13. Daring to Sue the Supreme Court of Texas on Behalf of Low-Income Texans * 14. Continuing the Good Fight: Other Fronts * 15. International Human Rights: Solidarity * 16. What Made TCRP Unique? * 17. Final Thoughts: Keeping the Marathon Going * Afterword by Greg Casar * Acknowledgments * Resources * Index
* Foreword by Lora J. Livingston * Introduction: Past as Prologue—Justice on the Horizon? * 1. The Early Years: From Michigan’s Strawberry Fields to South Texas * 2. South Texas in the 1960s and 1970s: Upheaval, Resistance, and the Origin of the South Texas Project * 3. Police Brutality, Act I: McAllen’s C-Shift Animals * 4. Texas Grand Jury Reform: Sidelining the Good Old Boys * 5. Farmworkers and Colonias on the Move * 6. The Texas ERA Comes to the Rescue of Farmworkers and Minority Voters * 7. Untethering from the Texas Civil Liberties Union: Birth of the Texas Civil Rights Project * 8. Convincing Texas Businesses and Government to Respect People with Disabilities * 9. The People Push Back: Free Speech and Assembly * 10. Police Brutality, Act II: The More Cops Change . . . * 11. Violence against Women and Sexual Bullying * 12. Privacy: AIDS, Lie Detectors, and the Case of the Purloined Baby Blood * 13. Daring to Sue the Supreme Court of Texas on Behalf of Low-Income Texans * 14. Continuing the Good Fight: Other Fronts * 15. International Human Rights: Solidarity * 16. What Made TCRP Unique? * 17. Final Thoughts: Keeping the Marathon Going * Afterword by Greg Casar * Acknowledgments * Resources * Index
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