We've got to try how the fight for voting rights makes everything else possible

"In We've Got To Try, O'Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a civil rights lead...

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Main Author:	O'Rourke, Beto (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Flatiron Books, [2022]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Nixon, Lawrence A., > 1883-1966. Suffrage > Texas > History. African American political activists > Texas > Biography. Voter suppression > Texas > History. Texas > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
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