TY  - GEN
T1  - In struggle against Jim Crow : Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957
T2  - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ;
A1  - Pitre, Merline, 1943-
LA  - English
PP  - College Station, Tex.
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
YR  - 1999
ED  - 1st ed.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm49569076
AB  - African American women have played significant roles in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality, but relatively little is known about many of these leaders and activists. Most accounts of the civil rights movement focus on male leaders and the organizations they led, leaving a dearth of information about the countless black women who were the backbone of the struggle in local communities across the country. At the local level women helped mold and shape the direction the movement would take. Lulu B. White was one of those women in the civil rights movement in Texas. Executive secretary of the Houston branch of the NAACP and state director of branches, White was a significant force in the struggle against Jim Crow during the 1940s and 1950s. She was at the helm of the Houston chapter when the Supreme Court struck down the white primary in Smith v. Allbright, and she led the fight to get more blacks elected to public office, to gain economic parity for African Americans, and to integrate the University of Texas. Author Merline Pitre places White in her proper perspective in Texas, Southern, African American, women's, and general American history; points to White's successes and achievements, as well as the problems and conflicts she faced in efforts to eradicate segregation; and looks at the strategies and techniques White used in her leadership roles. Pitre effectively places White within the context of twentieth-century Houston and the civil rights movement that was gripping the state. In Struggle Against Jim Crow is pertinent to the understanding of race, gender, interest group politics, and social reform during this turbulent era.--From jacket flap.
OP  - 181
CN  - F391.W575 P58 1999eb
SN  - 0585387842
SN  - 9780585387840
SN  - 0890968691
SN  - 9780890968697
SN  - 1603441999
SN  - 9781603441995
KW  - White, Lulu B. : (Lulu Belle)
KW  - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People : History : 20th century.
KW  - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
KW  - African American women civil rights workers : Texas : Biography.
KW  - Civil rights workers : Texas : Biography.
KW  - African Americans : Civil rights : Texas : History : 20th century.
KW  - Houston (Tex.) : Biography.
KW  - Houston (Tex.) : Race relations.
KW  - Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines : Texas : Biographies.
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme : Texas : Biographies.
KW  - Noirs américains : Droits : Texas : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Political.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Civil Rights.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Human Rights.
KW  - African American women civil rights workers
KW  - African Americans : Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Texas
KW  - Texas : Houston
KW  - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
KW  - Civil Rights Movement.
KW  - United States Local History.
KW  - Regions & Countries - Americas.
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - collective biographies.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Biografieën (vorm)
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -