Word: sweatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discharged by the judge, the eight majority jurors were angry and anxious to tell their story. Several walked over to shake Murphy's hand and congratulate him. His summation, said one juror, Mrs. Helen Sweatt, "was the real turning point of the case." The jury had been eight to four almost from the beginning. The leader of the holdouts for acquittal had been Foreman James-the man whom Murphy had singled out. But, said one juror, all twelve had agreed on two facts: that the documents were typed on the Hiss machine and that it was in the Hiss...
...Heman Marion Sweatt, a studious mail-carrier, who was refused admission to the University of Texas law school at Austin because of his race (TIME, March 11, 1946). The new Negro university has a faculty of 85, but it has no law school. Besides, Sweatt planned to continue his court fight for admission to the University of Texas. He was convinced that the new university did not meet the "equal facilities" requirement laid down by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1938. Apparently no one else thought so, either. Said Acting President Allen E. Norton, a Negro: "Institutions...
...Texas a Negro lawyer who was once a postman tried to force the state university to admit a Negro postman who would like to be a lawyer. Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pleaded the case of Herman Marion Sweatt against the University of Texas (TIME, March 24). The case was now clearly not just another attempt to get "equal facilities" for Negroes, but a major legal assault on educational segregation. Both sides recognized it as the test for similar laws in 17 states...
...week's end, Judge Roy Archer denied Sweatt's application. He based his decision on state law: "Our constitution provides for separate schools." No one thought that the last word in the case of Herman Marion Sweatt had yet been heard. Marshall plans a "showdown fight," all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...satisfied. Said Sweatt: "Assume I go to the interim law school for a year, then I transfer to the new university. How do I know what will be at Houston? The suit," he added, "goes...