Black victory : the rise and fall of the white primary in Texas

Black victory : the rise and fall of the white primary in Texas / Darlene Clark Hine.

"In Black Victory, Darlene Clark Hine examines a pivotal breakthrough in the struggle for black liberation through the voting process. She details the steps and players in the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright, a precursor to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. She discusses the ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hine, Darlene Clark
Other Authors: Lawson, Steven F., 1945-, Pitre, Merline, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2003.
Edition:New ed. /
Subjects:
African Americans > Suffrage > Texas > History.
Primaries > Texas > Case studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
African Americans > Suffrage
Primaries
Texas
Case studies
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Collaboration and conversations : revisioning Black victory / by Darlene Clark Hine
  • Reflection on Darlene Clark Hine's Black victory / by Steven F. Lawson
  • In retrospect : Darlene Clark Hine's Black victory / by Merline Pitre
  • 1. The Supreme Court and the Black ballot : from Reconstruction reality to new South myth
  • 2. The rise of the Texas Democratic white primary
  • 3. Black Texans and the rise of the NAACP
  • 4. Nixon v. Herndon, 1927
  • 5. An overview of white primary cases in Virginia, Arkansas, and Florida, 1928-1930
  • 6. Nixon v. Condon, 1932
  • 7. The NAACP, Black Texans, and white Democrats, 1932-1934
  • 8. Grovey v. Townsend, 1935
  • 9. Coming together : Black lawyers, Black Texans, and the NAACP, 1936-1941
  • 10. Smith v. Allwright and the fall of the white primary, 1944-1952
  • Afterword : The second Reconstruction.

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