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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Democracy on Trial: The Persistence of Race-Based Vote Denial in American History -- 2. To Exclude and Oppress: The Evolution of the Texas All-White Primary -- 3. A Rising Tide of Protest: Early Efforts to Combat the Texas All-White Primary -- 4. Last Chance for Victory: Smith v. Allwright in the Lower Federal Courts -- 5. May It Please the Court: Smith v. Allwright in the Supreme Court -- 6. Death Knell: The All-White Primary after Smith -- Chronology -- Relevant Cases -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Preface: The Case That Must Be Named -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Vote Too Close to Call -- 2. Enter the Lawyers -- 3. Eye of the Beholder -- 4. The Battlefield of Litigation -- 5. The Ticking of the Clock -- 6. Ballots before the Bench -- 7. "A Florida Hurricane Heading to Washington -- 8. Headfirst into the Political Thicket -- 9. A Self-Inflicted Wound? -- 10. The Unlearned Lessons of 2000 -- 11. (Wrong) Lessons Learned: Bush v. Gore at Twenty -- Afterword: The Process Matters -- Chronology: A Time Line of Events for the 2000 Presidential Postelection Crisis -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

""It will be particularly useful for instructors teaching courses on federal judicial process as a supplement to their regular textbooks.""-- Law and Politics Book Reviews

Democracy on trial : the persistence of race-based vote denial in American history -- To exclude and oppress : the evolution of the Texas all-white primary -- A rising tide of protest : early efforts to combat the Texas all-white primary -- Last chance for victory: Smith v. Allwright in the lower federal courts -- May it please the court : Smith v. Allwright in the Supreme Court -- Death knell : the all-white primary after Smith

Explores and documents the causes and effects of the long history of vote denial on American politics, culture, law, and society. An open franchise is vital to the survival of democracy. Yet for the past two centuries women, immigrants, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, poor people, and others have all faced organized efforts to obstruct their participation in the political process

In 1902 a new federal district court was established to serve a broad segment of the Texas Gulf Coast region, including Houston. In the use of its discretion to choose between "private" and "public" law, this court for many years served the interests of the region's economic and political elite and helped stabilize a fast-changing economy that was undergoing wild swings of boom and bust. After 1945, however, the court reluctantly began to address growing demands for