| Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 role that NAACP attorneys such as Thurgood Marshall played in helping black Texans regain the right denied them by white Texans in the Democratic Party: the right to vote and to have that vote count. Hine illuminates the mobilization of black Texans. She effectively demonstrates how each part of the African American community - from professionals to laborers - was essential to this struggle and the victory against disfranchisement."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Texas -- History
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Primaries -- Texas -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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African Americans -- Suffrage
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Primaries
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Texas
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lawson, Steven F., 1945-
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Pitre, Merline, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0826263682 |
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9780826263681 |
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9780826214621 |
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0826214622 |
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