Snyder And Scurry County PDF Download

"A twenty-first century investigation of a twentieth century legacy, Our Peace tells a sweeping account of Scurry County’s African-American community from their journey across Texas during the Great Migration until the integration of the Snyder Independent School District. Pulled from the headlines of Snyder’s newspapers and set against a backdrop of the larger Black History of Texas, the story follows one resilient community’s struggle to create a home for themselves in the Jim Crow-era West. Beginning with an explosive act of domestic terrorism and the subsequent cover-up, Our Peace chronicles the birth, growth, maturity, and alleged death of segregation from a distinctly West Texas point of view. Centered around the lives of church deacon John Baker, school principal Daniel Johnson, and Texas Governor Price Daniel, the story exposes the rise and fall of the Scurry County Ku Klux Klan, the division of Snyder into parallel societies, the foundations of local Black education and religion, the harrowing experiences of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, the chaos of Snyder’s oil boom, the anxieties of school integration, and the origins of Scurry County’s Confederate monument." -- Provided by publisher