2 Aug 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor

White Primary
✧ white primary - permitted political parties to
exclude African Americans from voting in primary
elections
✧ south was so democratic, white primaries
deprived African Americans of a voice in real
contests
✧ white primaries unconstitutional in 1944
(Smith vs. Allwright)
✧ Twenty-fourth Amendment - constitutional
amendment passed in 1964 that declared poll taxes