Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice

by Gary M. Lavergne

Book Overview

Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, Texas State Historical Association, 2010
Carr P. Collins Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2011

On February 26, 1946, an African American from Houston applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law. Although he met all of the school's academic qualifications, Heman Marion Sweatt was denied admission because he was black. He challenged the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292742959
• ISBN13: 9780292742956
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"