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That. they did not want these prairie view students voting, not in their county. top elections official in the county dug in personally and decided he would make it his life's mission to block those students from voting in his county. he had his own ideas about what constituted a real waller county resident for the purposes of voting. and students at that black school did not fit that idea that he had, and so he invented all sorts of tests that had the effect of not letting students at that local college register to vote in waller county. that turned into a legal fight that wound its way throu...

And in 1972, the year after the voting age changed from 21 to 18, lots and lots of students at prairie view decided they wanted to register and vote for the 1972 election. it was a super hot election, right? nixon is running for reelection, running against a liberal anti-war candidate, george mcgovern. prairie view students 18, 19, 20-year-olds, they've newly got the right to vote. they decide like students all around the country that they wanted to register and vote, and they decided that in large numbers. county officials in waller county, texas, though, decide they'd were not going to allow...