Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans' quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This and "Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas and "-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University and "Crucial Decade for Texas Railway Union Struggles, 1886-1896 and "-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington and "Racism and Sexism in Rural The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s-1910s and " -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University and "Fighting on the Home The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I and "-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair and "Contrasts in Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio and "-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word and "Religious Moderates and The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954-1968 and "-David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and "Elusive African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston and "-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University and "Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas and "-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.