Word: sweatt
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Despite his success at breaking down the legal wall of segregation that has long surrounded higher education in Texas, Heman Sweatt, 39, the first Negro admitted to the University of Texas law school, found the study of law a much tougher proposition. Last year he flunked out. But Dean Page Keeton gave Sweatt permission to try once more. Last week, in make-up exams, Sweatt failed again...
...decision of the Florida Supreme Court. The state justices had upheld a Miami ordinance prohibiting Negroes form playing on a municipal golf course except on one day a week. The high bench, however, cancelled that finding and directed reconsideration "in the light of" its June decisions in the Sweatt and McLaurin cases...
Herman M. Sweatt claimed that Texas violated his constitutional rights when it refused to admit him to the state university, while McLaurin argued that Oklahoma's state law school had illegally practiced segregation against him. Both tried to convince the Court that separate facilities cannot be equal...
This week, in one of its newsiest Opinion Mondays, the Supreme Court: ¶ Outlawed the Jim Crow segregation of Negroes in railroad dining cars on interstate trips. ¶ Ordered the University of Texas to admit Heman Sweatt, Negro, to its all-white law school, on the ground that the Negro law school that Texas had set up was not the equivalent of Texas' law school for whites...
Besides many cases involving labor rights, and several anti-trust suits, the Court has some important civil rights decisions to make. It must decide whether the separate Negro law school that the University of Texas set up for Marion Sweatt is equal--Sweatt claims it is not. And the Court must rule whether George McLaurin is correct in stating that his rights have been abused by segregation at Oklahoma State University. The Henderson case, involving discrimination on southern railroads, is also still on the docket. Since the Court said in 1896 that separate facilities could be made equal, decisions...