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Smith v. 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.
- Frankfurter (in judgment)
- Smith v. Allwright, Election Judge, et al.
- Roberts
- Reed, joined by Stone, Black, Douglas, Murphy, Jackson, Rutledge
Nov 28, 2018 · Smith v. Allwright is a landmark case that overturned the previous decision in Grovey v. Townsend, which held that political parties are not State actors for constitutional purposes. The Supreme Court held that a State cannot deny a person the right to vote in primaries or general elections on the basis of race, and that a political party acting as an agent of the State is a State actor for constitutional purposes.
Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944) Smith v. Allwright No. 51 Argued November 10, 12, 1943 Reargued January 12, 1944 Decided April 3, 1944 321 U.S. 649 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. The right of a citizen of the United States to vote for the nomination of candidates for the United States Senate and ...
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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 ...
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1. This writ of certiorari brings here for review a claim for damages in the sum of $5,000 on the part of petitioner, a Negro citizen of the 48th precinct of Harris County, Texas, for the refusal of respondents, election and associate election judges respectively of that precinct, to give petitioner a ballot or to permit him to cast a ballot in the primary election of July 27, 1940, for the ...
Mar 30, 2023 · In 1923, the Texas Democratic Party required all voters in its primary to be white based on a state law authorizing the party to establish its own internal rules. Lonnie E. Smith, a black voter in Harris County, Texas, sued county election official S. S. Allwright for the right to vote in the primary.
