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Nixon v. Herndon, 273 U.S. 536 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision which struck down a 1923 Texas law forbidding blacks from voting in the Texas Democratic Party primary. [1]
The UNIA 1929 headed by Garvey continued operating in Jamaica until he moved to England in 1935. There he set up office for the parent body of the UNIA 1929 and maintained contact with all its divisions. UNIA 1929 conventions were held in Canada in 1936, 1937, and 1938. The 1937 sessions were highlighted by the introduction of the first course ...
Del Rio ISD v. Salvatierra is a Texas Supreme Court ruling filed in 1930. The ruling sought to determine whether or not segregated schools for Hispanics were necessary. [1] [2] It ruled calling for the segregation of Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics into three separate school systems.
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (University of California Press, 1997). Glasrud, Bruce A. and Merline Pitre. Black Women in Texas History (2008) Glasrud, Bruce A. et al eds. African Americans in Central Texas History From Slavery to Civil Rights (2019); scholarly essays online
In African-American history, the post–civil rights era is defined as the time period in the United States since Congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, major federal legislation that ended legal segregation, gained federal oversight and enforcement of voter registration and electoral practices in states or areas ...
NBC News’ Jane Timm fact checks what the Texas voting bill will actually do. Texas is considering a bill that would be similar to Georgia’s new voting laws, though Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick ...
A third lawsuit has been filed by the Biden administration regarding Texas redistricting maps which were deemed discriminatory. The most The post Feds allege Texas county voting maps are ...
SAN ANTONIO — Raids on the homes of several Democrats in South Texas, in what the state attorney general said is an ongoing election integrity investigation, has set off a showdown with the ...