TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavergne,Gary M.
TI  - Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
T2  - Jess and Betty Jo Hay series
SN  - 9780292722002 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - LC212.722.T4 L38 2010
U1  - 344.764/0798 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Austin, Tex.
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Sweatt, Heman Marion,
KW  - Painter, Theophilus S
KW  - Marshall, Thurgood,
KW  - University of Texas at Austin
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Segregation in higher education
KW  - Texas
KW  - African American college students
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue -- One of the great prophets -- The cast of characters -- Iron shoes -- The shadow of failure -- The second emancipation -- A university of the first class -- "A brash moment" -- The great day -- "Time is of essence" -- "The tenderest feeling" -- The basement school -- A line in the dirt -- "I don't believe in segregation" -- The sociological argument -- The house that Sweatt built -- "Don't we have them on the run" -- A shattered spirit -- The big one -- Why Sweatt won -- Epilogue
ER  -