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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 51.
    Smith v. Allwright, Election Judge, et al.
    June 12, 1944.
   The sentence on page 9 of the slip opinion which reads:

“Under our Constitution, the great privilege of choosing his rulers may not be denied a man by the State because of his color,” is amended to read as follows:
“Under our Constitution the great privilege of the ballot may not be denied a man by the State because of his color.”

Mr. Justice Roberts and Mr. Justice Frankfurter took no part in the consideration of the order here entered.