Before Brown : : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
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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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PUBLISHED
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: x, 354 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780292722002 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292722001 (cloth : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Sweatt, Heman Marion, -- 1912-1982.
Sweatt, Heman Marion, -- 1912-1982 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Painter, Theophilus S. -- 1889-1969 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Marshall, Thurgood, -- 1908-1993.
University of Texas at Austin -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation in higher education -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
African American college students -- Texas -- Biography.
African Americans -- Texas -- Biography.
African Americans -- History -- Texas -- 20th century.
Texas -- History -- 20th century.