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ID: 2731 ~ Source: Lane, Randy and Stephen Sloan. “The White Primary.” Produced by Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History. Waco History Podcast. August 26, 2019. Podcast. MP3 audio, 47:02, https://wacohistorypodcast.com/white-primary/.
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Dr. Katherine Kuehler Walters describes the racial and political context in Texas before and after World War I. She explains why it was an ideal moment to test the boundaries of suffrage with a case like Sublett.

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By Winston Margaritis & Regina Wenger
Long before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, attorney Richard D. (R.D.) Evans waged the fight for civil rights from his Waco law office. As Waco’s first African American attorney, he became one of the most…