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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

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

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

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:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Collaboration and Conversations

Rewection on Darlene Clark Hine w s Black Victory

In Retrospect

Preface

Acknowledgments to the First Edition

The Supreme Court and the Black Ballot

The Rise of the Texas Democratic White Primary

Black Texans and the Rise of the NAACP

Nixon v. Herndon, 1927

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

Nixon v. Condon, 1932

The NAACP, Black Texans, and White Democrats, 1932-1934

Grovey v. Townsend, 1935

Coming Together

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

Afterword

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8262-6368-2

OCLC:

55664005