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white primary

American  
[wahyt prahy-mer-ee] / ˈwaɪt ˈpraɪ mɛr i /

noun

white primaries plural
  1. formerly in the southern United States, a primary election in which only white voters could participate.


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Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern white primary.

From Time Magazine Archive

He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas.

From Time Magazine Archive

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