John W. Stormont Lecture: The Origins of Texas’ White Primary Election System, 1876-1906
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JOHN W. STORMONT LECTURE SERIES
Museum of the Coastal Bend, Victoria College
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
The Origins of Texas’ White Primary Election System, 1876-1906
Presented by Bobby Oliver, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Bobby Oliver explores the critical thirty-year window following the end of Reconstruction in 1876. By analyzing local ordinances, legislative debates, and early legal challenges, this presentation examines how the foundations of Jim Crow voting restrictions were built in Texas, long before the landmark Supreme Court battles of the mid-twentieth century.
Oliver is a fifth-generation Texan, with ancestors settling in Van Zandt County in 1856 and Upshur County in the 1870s. He received his MA and PhD. in History from Texas Christian University.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Museum of the Coastal Bend, Victoria College
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
The Origins of Texas’ White Primary Election System, 1876-1906
Presented by Bobby Oliver, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Bobby Oliver explores the critical thirty-year window following the end of Reconstruction in 1876. By analyzing local ordinances, legislative debates, and early legal challenges, this presentation examines how the foundations of Jim Crow voting restrictions were built in Texas, long before the landmark Supreme Court battles of the mid-twentieth century.
Oliver is a fifth-generation Texan, with ancestors settling in Van Zandt County in 1856 and Upshur County in the 1870s. He received his MA and PhD. in History from Texas Christian University.
Admission is free and open to the public.
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Museum of the Coastal Bend - Victoria, TX, 2200 East Red River St.,Victoria, Texas, United States
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