Smith v. Allwright
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Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649, is 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
Houston dentist Lonnie E. Smith casts his ballot in the 1944 Texas Democratic primary election (July 22, 1944)
Thurgood Marshall
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Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-Amer
Smith v. Allwright
…Court agreed to hear the case to resolve a purported inconsistency between two precedent decisions: Grovey v. Townsend and United States v. Classic. Thurgood Marshall, who, at the time, led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and would later become the Supreme Court's first black justice, represented Mr. Smith in the case…
Official portrait, 1976
Marshall in the Colored High and Training School yearbook, 1925
Marshall c. 1935–1940
NAACP leaders Henry L. Moon, Roy Wilkins, Herbert Hill, and Thurgood Marshall in 1956