He is as civically engaged as a man, especially a black man, could possibly be in the Jim Crow south of Texas in the 1910s and the 1920s. So imagine what it felt like to him when the Texas State Legislature in 1923 passed what is known as the white primary law, which banned voting by Dr. Lawrence Nixon and every other African American in the state. And unlike other states of the former Confederacy, Texas did not do this. Euphemistically. They didn't ask you when you wanted to register to vote if you were black, to … (04:48–05:02)
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Asserts that the Texas State Legislature passed a law in 1923 banning African Americans from voting.
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