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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 university's decision in court, and the resulting case, Sweatt v. Painter, went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Sweatt's favor. The Sweatt case paved the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka rulings that finally opened the doors to higher education for all African Americans and desegregated public education in the United States.
In this engrossing, well-researched book, Gary M. Lavergne tells the fascinating story of Heman Sweatt's struggle for justice and how it became a milestone for the civil rights movement. He reveals that Sweatt was a central player in a master plan conceived by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for ending racial segregation in the United States. Lavergne masterfully describes how the NAACP used the Sweatt case to practically invalidate the "separate but equal" doctrine that had undergirded segregated education for decades. He also shows how the Sweatt case advanced the career of Thurgood Marshall, whose advocacy of Sweatt taught him valuable lessons that he used to win the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and ultimately led to his becoming the first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prologue
Chapter 2: One of the Great Prophets
Chapter 3: The Cast of Characters
Chapter 4: Iron Shoes
Chapter 5: The Shadow of Failure
Chapter 6: The Second Emancipation
Chapter 7: A University of the First Class
Chapter 8: "A Brash Moment"
Chapter 9: The Great Day
Chapter 10: "Time Is of the Essence"
Chapter 11: "The Tenderest Feeling"
Chapter 12: The Basement School
Chapter 13: A Line in the Dirt
Chapter 14: "I Don't Believe in Segregation"
Chapter 15: The Sociological Argument
Chapter 16: The House That Sweatt Built
Chapter 17: "Don't We Have Them on the Run"
Chapter 18: A Shattered Spirit
Chapter 19: The Big One
Chapter 20: Why Sweatt Won
Chapter 21: Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography and Notes on Sources
Index
