HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Juanita Craft, Lulu White, Felix Z. Longoria Jr.
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Jaime crow/ juan crow: jim crow was used against both groups: separating people based on race, culture, etc. Poll tax: not first african american case to try and fight. 1927 nixon v. herndon (nixon = african american man) Both went to supreme court ruled in nixon"s favor. 1944 smith v. allwright goes to supreme court rule in favor of smith. Democratic party is a state party needs to follow 14th and 15th amendments makes a dent. 1946 over 75,000 to 100,000 african americans in tx have voted in an election and are participating in tx elections. The american gi forum and the longoria affair, 1948-9: dueling sides, felix longoria, death in ww2 in the philippines helps dr. hector p. garc a naval air station in corpus christie isn"t opening beds to mexican. Americans: mexican americans having issues get gi bill (1944) money to buy homes.
