In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957.(Book Review)

This book chronicles the remarkable life and political career of a little-known, yet influential and effective community activist--Lulu Belle Madision White. Beginning with White's childhood in east Texas, Merline Pitre poignantly describes the rigid system of racial segregation that would define White's political philosophy and bring "her in struggle against Jim Crow." By noting White's varied roles as executive secretary, state director of branches, and national field worker in the Houston chapter of the NAACP, Pitre not only details the political techniques and strategies White employed in dismantling racial segregation, but she presents her as a courageous, responsive, and …