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...Head of the Charles. It was then that I discovered that Flemings, despite his apparent disingenuousness, had been hiding something. He, too, spoke the second language of the Harvard student. “I take issue with the state Court’s decision in Sweatt v. Painter,” he said with a surprising oratorical grace that seemed to arise from nowhere. “From an objective standpoint, parity between educational institutions was not manifested in either situation presented in the readings.” He was well versed in the basic words and phrases of this...
...JAMES SWEATT (D) 2745 Blackstone, Dallas...
...contenders: Democrat James Sweatt, a thoracic surgeon, was the first African-American president of the Dallas County Medical Society. He opposes building more jails and supports public education. Lisa Kitterman is the only new Republican in the race. She advocates abolishing payroll taxes and instead funding Social Security through a consumption tax. Other candidates, none expected to do much more than take votes away from the frontrunners, include Democrat Marvin Crenshaw and Independents Ada Granado, Steven Hammond and Lisa Hembry...
...BEEN ALMOST 47 YEARS SINCE a black man named Heman Sweatt and his lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, brought a case before the Supreme Court that forcibly integrated the University of Texas. So it was oddly appropriate last week that the University of Texas at Austin was once again the defendant in a sweeping, precedent-setting court ruling on the subject of race. This time, though, the university was chastised for promoting racial diversity, not racial exclusion...
...Director-Counsel Marshall pierced "separate but equal" segregation when the Supreme Court ordered Heman Sweatt admitted as the first Negro at the University of Texas Law School and told the University of Oklahoma to stop isolating Negro Graduate Student George McLaurin. Sweatt and McLaurin opened the way for 1954's Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision against school segregation. After that came a virtually unbroken string of Inc. Fund triumphs against segregated buses, beaches, golf courses, hospitals and courtrooms-the major victories of the U.S. civil rights revolution...