Includes bibliographical references and index.

People are power: the mass uprising and the maverick coalition -- Segregation is an economic problem: black workers win the right to vote -- Forcing us together in self-defense: the Cold War, the black vote and the liberal movement -- Minorities combine: G. J. Sutton, Albert Peña, and the Democrats of Texas -- Unions are needed so desperately here: the rebirth of the labor movement and the seeds of the Bexar coalition -- We shall be heard: rights in black and brown from the sit-ins to Viva Kennedy -- Trying to reach substantially unanimous agreement on limited political targets: the "Latin vote" and the first democratic coalition -- Separating the wheat from the chaff: intra-racial divides beget inter-racial unity -- They'll never separate us again: the multiracial democratic coalition on the march -- New power for the Texas minorities: winning the battles, losing the war.

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