| 1927 - 720 pagini
...United States, March 7, 1923.) In 1923 the State of Texas passed a statute which in words declared "in no event shall a Negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic Party primary held in the State of Texas." The plaintiff, a negro, brought suit against the Judges of Elections for... | |
| Perley Orman Ray - 1924 - 722 pagini
...election, provided such voter complies with all laws and rules governing party primary elections; however, in no event shall a negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic party primary election held in the state of Texas, and should a negro vote in a Democratic primary election, such ballot shall... | |
| 1925 - 558 pagini
...election, provided such voter complies with all rules and laws governing party primary elections. However, in no event shall a Negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic primary election held in the State of Texas, and should a Negro vote in a Democratic primary election,... | |
| Perry Belmont - 1927 - 286 pagini
...Supreme Court in the Texas Primary Law Case has declared unconstitutional a Texas statute providing that "in no event shall a Negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic party primary in the State of Texas." The Court held that the statute denied the equal protection of the laws and... | |
| John Mabry Mathews, Clarence Arthur Berdahl - 1928 - 974 pagini
...based upon a statute of Texas enacted in May, 1923, and designated article 3093a, by the words of which "in no event shall a negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic party primary election held in the state of Texas," etc., and that this statute is contrary to the 14th and 15th Amendments... | |
| Sister Mary Barbara McCarthy - 1928 - 170 pagini
...the Four'Nixon <v. Herndon, 3 Knaebel, 273, US, 356, 1927. 2La<ws of Texas, 1913, Art. 3093-a; "... in no event shall a negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic party election held in the State of Texas, ..." iGuinn v. United States, 238, U. S,, 247; Meyers v. Anderson,... | |
| Frederic Austin Ogg, Perley Orman Ray - 1928 - 696 pagini
...possessed only by white Democrats. Texas, however, went farther by writing into her law a provision that "in no event shall a negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic primary election held in the state of Texas, and should a negro vote in a Democratic primary election... | |
| 1928 - 272 pagini
...Holmes, speaking for the court, declared null and void that part in the Texas primary law which provided that "in no event shall a negro be eligible to participate in a Democratic Party primary election held in the State of Texas." Moreover, the Supreme Court, he says, at the October term, 1914, in the... | |
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