Merline Pitre
Merline Pitre
MERLINE PITRE is a professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Behavioral Sciences at Texas Southern University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Temple University and has published a number of articles in scholarly and professional journals. Her most noted works are Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares: The Black Leadership of Texas, 1868 to 1898 (a book which was reissued in 1997 and used in a traveling exhibit on black legislators by the State Preservation Board in 1998), and In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900 to 1957 (Texas A&M University Press, 1999). Pitre has been the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Texas Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also a former member of the Texas Council for the Humanities. Currently, she is a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Texas Council for the Humanities and serves on the nominating board of the Organization of American Historians.
TSHA Awards
Position
- President (2011–2012)
Handbook Entries
| Title | Contributor Type |
|---|---|
| Abner, David, Sr. | Author |
| Becnel, Veronica Nia Dorian | Author |
| Burton, Walter Moses | Author |
| Chase, John Saunders | Author |
| Cuney, Norris Wright | Author |
| Gaines, Matthew | Author |
| Gregory Institute | Author |
| Johnson, George [Bud] | Author |
| Jones, Gaynell Griffin | Author |
| McElroy, George Albert | Author |
| Nabrit, Samuel Milton | Author |
| Rosenwald Schools | Author |
| Ruby, George Thompson | Author |
| Spearman, Leonard Hall O’connell, Sr. | Author |
| White, Lulu Belle Madison | Author |
| Wickliff, Aloysius Martin, Sr. | Author |
| Williams, Benjamin Franklin | Author |
