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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hine, Darlene Clark.

Contributor:

Lawson, Steven F., 1945-

Pitre, Merline, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Suffrage--Texas--History.

African Americans.

Primaries--Texas--Case studies.

Primaries.

African Americans--Suffrage.

History.

Texas.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

New edition / with essays by Darlene Clark Hine, Steven F. Lawson, and Merline Pitre.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]

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.

Contents:

Collaboration and Conversations: Revisioning Black Victory / Darlene Clark Hine 1

Reflection on Darlene Clark Hine's Black Victory / Steven F. Lawson 9

In Retrospect: Darlene Clark Hine's Black Victory / Merline Pitre 25

1. The Supreme Court and the Black Ballot: From Reconstruction Reality to New South Myth 51

2. The Rise of the Texas Democratic White Primary 69

3. Black Texans and the Rise of the NAACP 95

4. Nixon v. Herndon, 1927 111

5. An Overview of White Primary Cases in Virginia, Arkansas, and Florida, 1928-1930 126

6. Nixon v. Condon, 1932 142

7. The NAACP, Black Texans, and White Democrats, 1932-1934 173

8. Grovey v. Townsend, 1935 193

9. Coming Together: Black Lawyers, Black Texans, and the NAACP, 1936-1941 210

10. Smith v. Allwright and the Fall of the White Primary, 1944-1952 231

Afterword: The Second Reconstruction 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.

ISBN:

0826214622

OCLC:

51726861