Beto O'Rourke: “Texas outlawed voting by Black Texans in 1923.”

“And I may have talked about somebody that I wrote a book about, this guy, Lawrence Nixon, an El Paso physician, a leader of the NAACP in, in my hometown, who, when Texas outlawed voting by Black Texans in 1923. took this case to the United States Supreme Court, won it not once, but twice, only to have the Texas state legislature rewrite the election laws to continue to disenfranchise him and every black Texan in the state.” (23:09–23:14)

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