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Disfranchisement and the One-Party State

   I.  The aftermath of Populism
       A.  the Populists and race
       B.  Democrats and the “race card”
       C.  The Democratic solution: disfranchisement
  II.  A case study in disfranchisement:  Grimes County, Texas
       A.  profile of the county
       B.  the Populist biracial coalition
       C.  the White Man’s Union
           1.  platform: disfranchisement
           2.  tactics
              a.  the race card again
              b.  terrorism
           3.  the siege of Anderson
       D.  the black exodus
       E.  the local white primary
  III.  Disfranchisement statewide
       A.  spread of the local white primary
       B.  the poll tax, 1902
       C.  the statewide white primary, 1922