Christia Adair

Christia V. Daniels Adair (October 22, 1893 – December 31, 1989) was an African-American suffragist and civil rights worker based in Texas.

[1][4][3] Christia Daniels taught at public schools in Edna for three years and then left teaching in 1918 after she married Elbert H. Adair, a brakeman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and moved to Kingsville, Texas.

After the case was decided in favor of Smith, the Houston chapter of the NAACP became a popular target for bomb threats.

[9] She was part of the effort to make black Texans eligible to serve on juries, and to be hired for county jobs.

[4] Adair was honored during her lifetime, as the namesake of a county park and community center in Houston,[12] which includes a John T. Biggers mural about her life;[13] and in 1984 when she was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame.