Before Brown [electronic resource] : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the long road to justice / Gary M. Lavergne.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jess and Betty Jo Hay series.
Main Author: Lavergne, Gary M., 1955-
Language:English
Published: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Jess and Betty Jo Hay series.
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 > Texas > Biography.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Texas > History > 20th century.
Texas > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Genre:
Trials, litigation, etc.
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
Format: Electronic eBook
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.