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Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court with regard to voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation. It overturned the Texas state law that authorized parties to set their internal rules, including the use of white primaries.
Nov 28, 2018 · Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944) Case Summary of Smith v. Allwright: The Democratic Party in the State of Texas only allowed white people to vote in Democratic primaries. Smith, a black Texas voter, sued the county election official, Allwright, for damages of $5,000 for denying him the right to vote in the Democratic primary.
Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944) Argued: January 12, 1944. Decided: April 3, 1944. Annotation. Primary Holding. States must make voting in their primary elections equally accessible to voters of all races, even if they do not manage the election process themselves. Syllabus. U.S. Supreme Court. Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944)
In an opinion written by Justice Stanley F. Reed, the Court struck down the law. The Court reasoned that the rule restricting primary voters to whites denied Smith equal protection under the law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. By delegating its authority to the Democratic Party to regulate its primaries, the state was allowing ...
Holding:1. Yes Legal Reasoning: Justice S.F. Reed (8-1)1. Denying voting rights in primary elections to non-whites violated 14th amendment equal protection rights 2. States allowing political parties to ban non-whites from primary elections equated to state sanctioned discrimination which is unconstitutional 3. Grovey v.
SMITH v. ALLWRIGHT, Election Judge, et al. Supreme Court. 321 U.S. 649. 64 S.Ct. 757. 88 L.Ed. 987. SMITH. v. ALLWRIGHT, Election Judge, et al. No. 51. Reargued Jan. 12, 1944. Decided April 3, 1944. As Amended June 12, 1944. Rehearing Denied May 8, 1944. See 322 U.S. 769, 64 S.Ct. 1052.
In Smith v. Allwright, Thurgood Marshall rose in front of the United States Supreme Court to argue that Texas’s Democratic primary system allowed whites to structurally dominate the politics of the one-party South. Specifically, the case presented the question of whether the Texas Democratic Party’s policy of prohibiting Blacks from voting ...
