Reconstruction to reform;: Texas politics, 1876-1906

by Alwyn Barr

In the only full account of Texas politics from 1876 to 1906, Alwyn Barr looks at challenges to the dominant Democratic Party from the farmer- and labor-based Greenback and Populist parties and examines key debates over land policy, prohibition, and voting rights. Barr places the colorful politicians, parties, and campaigns within the perspective of national political and economic trends of the Gilded Age and Progressive Period. He traces struggles by African Americans to maintain their right to vote in the face of white efforts to disfranchise them, setting the stage for twentieth-century court cases.

315 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

Reviews

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This a political history of the Democratic party in Texas from Reconstruction to the early 1900's when the party switched from Conservative ideals to more Liberal ones that started stirring Texas away from a solid Democrat South. The work is full of personalities and statistics.