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Before Brown : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the long road to justice / Gary M. Lavergne.
Van Pelt Library LC212.722.T4 L38 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavergne, Gary M., 1955-
- Series:
- Jess and Betty Jo Hay series
- Jess and Bettry Jo Hay series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982.
- Sweatt, Heman Marion.
- Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 1889-1969.
- University of Texas at Austin.
- Segregation in higher education--Texas--History--20th century.
- Segregation in higher education.
- African American college students--Texas--Biography.
- African American college students.
- African Americans--Texas--Biography.
- African Americans.
- University of Texas at Austin--History--20th century.
- Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 1889-1969--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Painter, Theophilus S.
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
- Marshall, Thurgood.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Texas--History--20th century.
- Race relations.
- History.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Texas--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- x, 354 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780292722002
- 0292722001
- OCLC:
- 473655291
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