Before Brown
Subtitle: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the long road to justice
By: Gary M. Lavergne.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780292722002; 9780292784895
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 -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Of the great prophets; title: The cast of characters; title: Iron shoes; title: The shadow of failure; title: The second emancipation; title: A university of the first class; title: "A brash moment"; title: The great day; title: "Time is of essence"; title: "The tenderest feeling"; title: The basement school; title: A line in the dirt; title: "I don't believe in segregation"; title: The sociological argument; title: The house that Sweatt built; title: "Don't we have them on the run"; title: A shattered spirit; title: The big one; title: Why Sweatt won; title: Epilogue.