OUTLINE
Civil Rights and Modern Texas Politics
I. The
Modern Civil Rights Movement
A. NAACP’s
civil rights goals, 1940
1. acquire
political rights
a) the
courts and test cases
(1) Smith
v. Allwright (1944)
(2) the
federal Voting Rights Act (1965)
(3) repeal
of the poll tax (1966)
b) minorities
in elective office
2. acquire
educational equality—“separate but equal”?
a) higher
education
(1) Sweatt
v. Painter, 1945
(2) integration
of public and private universities
b) public
schools
(1) white
attitudes
(2) Delgado
v. Bastrop ISD (1948) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
(3) Allan
Shivers and “massive resistance”
(4) LBJ,
Sam Rayburn, and Price Daniel
(5) federal
Civil Rights Act of 1964
(6) public
schools integrated
3. end
segregation in other public accommodations
a) Martin
Luther King, Jr. and peaceful resistance
b) sit-ins
and demonstrations
c) legal
segregation overturned
II. Modern
Texas Politics
A. the
schizophrenic Democratic party
1. Allan
Shivers and the conservatives
2. Ralph
Yarborough and the liberals
3. LBJ,
Rayburn, Price Daniel, and John Connally
B. the
rise of the Republican party
1. the
Shivercrats
2. John
Tower
3. Bill
Clements
C. a
two-party state?
1. Mark
White and Ann Richards: anomalies?
2. George
W. Bush
D. a
one-party state again?
1. the
Republican triumph, 1990s - ?
2. Hispanics
and the face of the future