Before Brown : : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice / / Gary M. Lavergne.
On February 26, 1946, an African American from Houston applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law. Although he met all of the school's academic qualifications, Heman Marion Sweatt was denied admission because he was black. He challenged the university's decision in cour...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jess and Betty Jo Hay Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Prologue
- CHAPTER 2 One of the Great Prophets
- CHAPTER 3 The Cast of Characters
- CHAPTER 4 Iron Shoes
- CHAPTER 5 The Shadow of Failure
- CHAPTER 6 The Second Emancipation
- CHAPTER 7 A University of the First Class
- CHAPTER 8 “A Brash Moment”
- CHAPTER 9 The Great Day
- CHAPTER 10 “Time Is of the Essence”
- CHAPTER 11 “The Tenderest Feeling”
- CHAPTER 12 The Basement School
- CHAPTER 13 A Line in the Dirt
- CHAPTER 14 “I Don’t Believe in Segregation”
- CHAPTER 15 The Sociological Argument
- CHAPTER 16 The House That Sweatt Built
- CHAPTER 17 “Don’t We Have Them on the Run”
- CHAPTER 18 A Shattered Spirit
- CHAPTER 19 The Big One
- CHAPTER 20 Why Sweatt Won
- CHAPTER 21 Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography and Notes on Sources
- Index