IN STRUGGLE AGAINST JIM CROW

In Struggle against Jim Crow



In Struggle against Jim Crow

Introduction

Current historical monographs are reconstructing the activism for social justice reform of the 1930s and 1940s. While earlier chronicles have detailed events mainly following World War II and the 1950s, newer narratives, like that of Lulu B. White, give us a vital connection to this ageless struggle while introducing fresh voices. What becomes so clear in the lives of White, Septima Clark, Modjeska Simkins, Juanita Jenkins, Clara Luper, Daisy Lampkins, and Ruby Hurley is that the founding years of the southern chapters of the National Association for the ...