Founded in 1962, the East Texas Historical Journal began 
accepting articles on African American history at a time when most 
scholarly journals considered the topic out of the mainstream, at 
best. Since that beginning, the journal has published some forty 
articles in the field.

    Now, Bruce A. Glasrud and Archie P. McDonald have gathered a 
collection of some of the best articles on black history from the 
East Texas Historical Journal; their samplings span the nineteenth 
and twentieth centuries and cover the principal themes and topics of 
African American history in the eastern portion of the Lone Star State.

    The book concludes with a listing of all articles on African 
American history from the East Texas Historical Journal. Blacks in 
East Texas History will enlighten and inform students and scholars 
of regional and African American history, as well as those interested 
in the trials and progress of African Americans in the American 
South and Southwest.

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BRUCE A. GLASRUD, who lives in Seguin, Texas, earned his Ph.D. 
from Texas Tech University. He is the co-editor of Black Women in 
Texas History and Buffalo Soldiers in the West. ARCHIE P. 
McDONALD is professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State 
University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and the executive director of the 
East Texas Historical Association, a position he has held since 1971.