The doubling of the percentage of African Americans in the South who were registered to vote in the mid-1940s was the result of the

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The Smith v. Allwright decision in 1944 was a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that deemed the white primary unconstitutional, which had effectively disenfranchised African American voters in the South. This decision led to a significant increase in African American voter registration.

The Doubling of the Percentage of African Americans in the South