In the 1927 Nixon v. Herndon case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that year that political parties were private organizations.

Question

- prompting the legislature to declare the next
• the poll tax was unconstitutional

• segregation was unconstitutional

• the public facilities must be segregated

• the state's all-white primaries were unconstitutional

Answer 1

In the 1927 Nixon v. Herndon case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state's all-white primaries were unconstitutional. This decision was significant as it highlighted the issue of racial discrimination in the electoral process, particularly in the context of the primaries that were designed to exclude African American voters.