This is the 15th episode of the Untold Series where I look at some of the most important civil rights cases. I quickly unpack their stories and why I believe they are significant. This series is an adaption to an ad hoc seminar I created while a student at Duke University School of Law.
This video looks at Smith v. Allwright (1944) a case that challenged the use of white primaries to exclude black people from the voting process. This case was the fourth in a series of cases challenging such primaries in the state of Texas. The Supreme had to decided whether or not the Democratic Party’s decision to exclude all non-white people from voting in their primaries violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Watch the video to find out what happened.
Books:
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander:
On Account of Race by Lawrence Goldstone:
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