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| disenfranshise blacks, segregate races |
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| Mechanisms to exclude black voters |
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| white primary, poll tax, literacy tests |
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| if your grandfather had the right to vote, so do you (excluded all black voters and saved whites from the literacy tests that would have excluded them) |
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sat in whites only railroad car
"equal protection" is only "political equality" and laws can be segregating
"separate but equal" doctrine |
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political equality
-Smith vs. Allwright
-threw out white primary
social equality
-Sweat vs. Painter
-all black law school not equal |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education |
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class-action suit
-eliminated "separate but equal"
-schools must desegregate
-had to force state compliance
+national involvement
+political change through elections |
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