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Texas naacp history Consistently organizing and financing landmark civil-rights lawsuits, the Texas NAACP became an important component of the national organization.The state's first chapter, established in El Paso in 1915, was joined by four new branches in 1918.
The Texas State Conference of NAACP branches was the most active, aggres sive, and effective organization within the African American community in chal lenging racial discrimination and segregation in Texas from the late 1920s through the 1950s. The Texas NAACP attacked racial segregation and discrimination on
Texas State Conference of Branches, NAACP, Minutes of Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, June 19-20, 1943, NAACP Papers, Unprocessed Files; Marshall to M. L. G., October 31, 1974, interview
Texas to stimulate branches and to recommend the formation of a state conference.' When NAACP field worker Juanita Jackson came in March, 1937, to reorganize the Houston and Dallas chapters, she also suggested establishing a state conference "in order to give the branches something to work towards." She discussed the matter with Waco at-
The Journal of African American History Volume 94, Number 4 Fall 2009 Documenting the NAACP's First Century A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
1 Δεκ 1995 · Under the leadership of A. Maceo Smith of Dallas, the State Conference expanded dramatically during World War II and the immediate postwar years to become the second-largest in the nation by 1945. Its total membership in more than a hundred branches averaged almost 30,000 until 1949.
28 Φεβ 2007 · Specifically, it offers a detailed analysis of the association's response, at the national level, to Stokely Carmichael's popularization of the “Black Power” slogan in the summer of 1966 and his subsequent attempts to provide a cogent definition of the term.
