Brave Black Women by Ruthe Winegarten

Author:Ruthe Winegarten [Winegarten, Ruthe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1997-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

Juanita Craft of Dallas helped organize dozens of NAACP chapters throughout Texas.

Juanita Craft used this flyer to advertise her speeches as she traveled around the state organizing for the NAACP.

She also organized youth groups to clean up Dallas neighborhoods and recycle tin cans and bottles. They helped integrate the State Fair of Texas. Juanita Craft recalled, “They were discriminating against my kids. They used to have just one day (Negro Day) a year when we could go. I went out there one day with the kids, and the little white kids were buying tickets to go on the Midway. The little Negro kids were just looking. That stirred me up. We had placards and everything. The best one was, ‘Don’t trade your pride for a segregated ride.’ We tried to buy Coca-Cola. They wouldn’t sell us that. We tried to buy sandwiches. They wouldn’t sell us that. I still get angry when I think of what we had to go through to straighten things out.”

She registered voters and conducted “Get Out the Vote” drives. One year, she sold over 1,000 poll taxes. (At that time you had to pay $1.75 to vote in Texas.) She used the slogan “The fight is on” to publicize her speeches as she traveled around the state organizing NAACP branches. At the age of seventy-three, Juanita Craft ran for the Dallas City Council and won, serving two terms. In 1984, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Pioneer Award from Texas Woman’s University.

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