Editing Smith v. Allwright (section)

==Implications==
This decision enabled the revival of black participation in Texas politics, for those voters who could get through the discriminatory voter registration process. Smith's efforts inspired [[Barbara Jordan]], a Fifth Ward resident who would later become a black politician in Texas.<ref name=Westp104/> The Smith case was decided in 1944. By 1948, the number of registered black voters in the South rose fourfold, from 200,000 in 1940 to 800,000 in 1948, and by 1952, it rose to over one million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/landmark-smith-v-allwright |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119075017/https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/landmark-smith-v-allwright/ |archive-date=2019-01-19 |title=Landmark: Smith v. Allwright {{!}} NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund}}</ref> This decision also helped reiterate the idea that public events run by private organizations, especially elections, are held to the same constitutional standards as all fully public events.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}