Question

Which civil rights actvitist urged Heman M Sweatt to sue the University of Texas Law School while working in the Houston NAACP chapter? Select one: Lulu Belle Madison White Barbara Jordan Jane McCallum Irma Rangel

Answer 1

Lulu Belle Madison White

Step-by-step explanation:

Lulu Belle Madison White in 1945, convinced Heman Marion Sweatt to be the case for the NAACP’s lawsuit to desegregate the University of Texas at Austin. The Jim Crow laws and the KKK made Houston the most segregated city in Texas. The African American community resisted, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sweatt challenged the separate but equal doctrine in Texas and it became one of the events led the federal government to decide on the desegregation of higher education.