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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Lavergne, Gary M., 1955-
Subjects
Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 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 -- Biography -- Texas -- African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Before Brown : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the long road to justice / Gary M. Lavergne.
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Lavergne, Gary M., 1955-
Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Subjects
Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 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 -- Biography -- Texas -- African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780292722002 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0292722001 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780292784895 (e-book)
0292784899 (e-book)
Series:
Jess and Betty Jo Hay series.
Description:
x, 354 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., ports., photos ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
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.
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Hawaii State Library
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