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English: Photograph of Lonnie E. Smith casting his vote in the 1944 Texas Democratic Presidential primary
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    By permission of the U.S. Supreme Court, Lonnie Smith, Negro, votes in Texas Democratic primary
    PICTURE OF THE WEEK
    The U.S. Supreme Court last April ruled that Negroes cannot legally be barred from voting in Texas Democratic primaries. The case was brought by Lonnie Smith, Negro dentist in Houston, who was refused voting permission in 1940 primary. On July 22 Smith and thousands of other Negroes reaped the benefit of the Supreme Court decision. For the first time in history great numbers of them were allowed to vote in a Texas Democratic primary.
Date publication; event dates to July 22, 1944
Source Life, Volume 17, Number 6 (page 25)
Author Time Inc., photograph by William David Bell

LIFE issues from Volume 16 Number 1 through Volume 18 Number 13 are in public domain as their copyright was not renewed. This issue is Volume 17, Number 6.

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