Description:
Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full history of TSU, from its founding, through the many varied and defining challenges it faced, to its emergence as a first-rate university that counts Barbara Jordon, Mickey Leland, and Michael Strahan among its graduates.
Brief description:
Merline Pitre is Professor of History and former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Science at Texas Southern University. A former President of the Texas State Historical Association, she is author of Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: The Black Leadership of Texas, 1868-1898, Revised Edition, and In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957.
Review Quotes: ""[A] comprehensive and detailed understanding of the institutional and bureaucratic development of TSU. . . . Pitre is an outstanding historian who delivers an unusually critical and rich institutional history of TSU."--Journal of American History