Hastie served as a co-lead lawyer with Thurgood Marshall in the voting rights case of Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944) in which the Supreme Court ruled against white primaries.
Hastie and Thurgood Marshall were co-lead attorneys for the voting rights case of Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944), where the Supreme Court ruled against white primaries.