Building Blocks to the Mountaintop

ID: 2733 ~ Source: Lane, Randy and Stephen Sloan. “The White Primary.” Produced by Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History. Waco History Podcast. August 26, 2019. Podcast. MP3 audio, 47:02, https://wacohistorypodcast.com/white-primary/.
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Even though Evans and E.L. Sublett came from different backgrounds, their combined efforts in Sublett v. Duke proved important in shaping the later Civil Rights movement. It is local efforts like this, Dr. Walters concludes, that need to be remembered and celebrated.

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By Winston Margaritis & Regina Wenger
Long before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, attorney Richard D. (R.D.) Evans waged the fight for civil rights from his Waco law office. As Waco’s first African American attorney, he became one of the most…