In 1944, in Smith v. Allwright, the Supreme Court ended the use of the all-white primary election; and in 1946, the Court ruled that state laws requiring segregation on interstate buses were unconstitutional. Two years later, the Court voided any real estate agreements that racially discriminated against purchasers, and in 1949, the Court ruled that Texas’s segregated law school for blacks was inherently unequal and inferior in every respect to its law school for whites.
