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The life of

Lulu Belle Madison White

A Timeline

Lulu Belle Madison White

Early Life

Early Life

Lulu Belle Madison was the 10th of 12 children, born to Samuel Henry and Easter Madison on August 31, 1900 in Elmo, Texas. She lived in a predominantly black area which encouraged her to get an education and fueled her activism on campus and later in life.

Education

As a child, she attended her local primary and secondary schools.

Once she had graduated, she enrolled at Butler College, then moved to Houston the next year and transferred to Prairie View College, where she received her bachelor’s degree in English at Prairie View College in 1928. She Married Julius White, a businessman, the same year.

Education

Prairie View College, 1930

Lulu and the NAACP

Career

Career

She worked as a teacher in the Houston Independent school district for nine years, then resigned and joined the Texas NAACP. Her goal was to eliminate the all-white Democratic primary (The primary was the most important voting of the election, and thus was closed off to colored people in Texas due to its power in the results).

Soon after, she joined Houston’s branch of NAACP full time. In 1937, she became Director of the Youth Council, and in 1939, the president. In 1943, she was promoted to full-time executive secretary of the Houston branch, and was the first woman in the South to hold such a position. Her fund-raising leadership eventually made Houston the second largest NAACP post in the US. Finally, in 1946, she was made director of the Texas state branches.

In 1948, as a member of the libertarian party, she and others tried to get Henry Wallace’s Progressive party on the presidential ballot in Texas. From 1949 - 1951 she worked as a field worker in the National NAACP office, and due to her friendships with Walter White, Daisy Lampkin, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins, her impact was national.

She returned to her position as director of state branches in Houston in 1949, and died on July 6, 1957. She was buried in Houston, Texas.

Contributions

Contributions

Contributions to Texas:

- She worked hard to integrate segregated schools. One of these schools was the University of Texas.

- Worked to get equal pay for Black and White teachers

Contributions to the US or world:

- She helped remove the White Primary (the Supreme Court outlawed the White primary in the 1944 court case of Smith v. Allwright). This was an important benefactor in the Brown v. Board of Education court case.

Herman Swaett and Lulu getting ready for a NAACP press conference

Interesting Facts

- The Lulu White Freedom Fund was established the week before Lulu’s death by the National NAACP in her honor

- Her husband had already been a member of the NAACP when they were married

- She raised two foster children

Interesting Facts

A protest led by the NAACP

Sources

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