It ruled the white primary as used by the Democratic Party of Georgia to be unconstitutional.
[1] This case followed the Smith v. Allwright case, which struck down the white primaries in Texas and began the downfall of white primaries in other Deep South states.
On July 4, 1944, Primus E. King, an African-American registered voter, went to the Muscogee County Courthouse in Columbus to cast his vote in the Democratic Party’s primary election.
In a landmark ruling in 1945, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia found in Mr. King's favor, deciding that the exclusion of black voters was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Amendments.
It would take nearly two decades before Leroy Johnson, the first African American to serve in the Georgia General Assembly, would be elected.