| 21. | In addition, the legislature established white primaries, ensuring that minorities were excluded from the formal political process.
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| 22. | In 1944 in " Smith v . Allwright ", the Supreme Court ruled against the white primary.
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| 23. | They also instituted a white primary.
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| 24. | During the early 1940s he participated in voter-registration drives and raised funds for lawsuits against the white primary.
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| 25. | The United States Supreme Court heard three Texas cases related to white primaries in 1927, 1932, and 1935.
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| 26. | In the post-Reconstruction era, by the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the poll tax and white primary.
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| 27. | White primaries were not struck down by the Supreme Court until " Smith v . Allwright " in 1944.
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| 28. | In 1944, the Supreme Court case ruled against the Texas white primary system in " Smith v . Allwright ".
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| 29. | White primaries were another means that the Democrats used to consolidate their political power, excluding blacks from voting in primaries.
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| 30. | The Court addressed the white primary system in a series of decisions later known as the " Texas primary cases ".
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