Time to Vote

ID: 2732 ~ 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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R.D. Evans chose a particular time to bring Sublett to court. Dr. Walters describes how his actions in that case laid the groundwork for the NAACP’s strategy to fight for the voting rights of African Americans in the decades that followed.

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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…