Before Brown : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice Gary M. Lavergne.
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TextSeries: Jess and Betty Jo Hay seriesPublication details: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 354 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., ports., photos ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780292722002 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0292722001 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780292784895 (ebook)
- 0292784899 (ebook)
- Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Painter, Theophilus S 1889-1969 (Theophilus Shickel), -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
- University of Texas at Austin -- History -- 20th century
- Segregation in higher education -- History -- 20th century -- Texas
- African American college students -- Biography -- Texas
- African Americans -- Biography -- Texas
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc -- 20th century -- Texas
- Texas -- Race relations -- 20th century
- 344.764/0798 22
- LC212.722.T4 L38 2010
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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.
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