There were many important female figures in Texas, but there was only one Lulu Belle Madison White. No other woman probably could have made the same differences as Lulu White. She was a loyal NAACP member, a segregation fighter, and a teacher for African Americans. Lulu, or sometimes known as Lula, Belle Madison White was born in 1907. She was the daughter of Samuel Henry and Easter Madison. She grew up in Elmo, went to elementary and high school in Elmo, and went to college at Butler College in Tyler, Texas. Later, Lulu moved to Houston where she married Julius White. Then, she enrolled at Prairie View College in 1928, where she got her Bachelor’s Degree in English. Shortly after, Lulu went to teach at Height, a black community on the edge of Houston, where she taught there for nine years, (Merline Pitre, Texas State …show more content…
White resigned her post as a teacher to devote full time service to the Texas National NAACP in its campaign to eliminate the state’s all-white Democratic primary. After joining the NAACP, Lulu continued to oppose discrimination and the abuse of African Americans. Most of Lulu White’s adult life was spent against Jim Crow in Texas. Lulu campaigned for the desegregation of public facilities. Lulu also spent time fighting for African American first class citizenship. Lulu decided to fight for the abolishing of the segregation of the University of Texas by helping Herman Sweatt to be a prosecutor in the NAACP lawsuit to look for the desegregation of the University of Texas. The case, Sweatt v. Painter (1950) ended segregation at the University of Texas and established a very influential example for the Brown v. Board of Education four years later. Lulu White’s best achievement was her contribution to the Sweatt v. Painter case, which rid the University of Texas of segregation. (Texas