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Terry v. Adams 345 U.S. 461 (1953) was a United States Supreme Court decision that held white-only pre-primary elections to be unconstitutional. It was the last in a series of court cases addressing the system of white primaries designed to disfranchise Southern black voters.In the first of these cases Nixon v. Herndon (1927) Nixon sued for damages under federal civil rights laws after being denied a ballot in a Democratic party primary election on the basis of race.