Word: sweatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four of Marshall's victories have become the constitutional cornerstones of the Negro's new civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening the way to effective Negro voting throughout the South; Morgan v. Virginia, striking down state-imposed segregation in interstate transportation; Sweatt v. Painter, compelling the University of Texas to admit a Negro to its law school; Shelley v. Kraemer, holding unenforceable, under the 14th Amendment, a racial housing covenant. Marshall's Supreme Court record: won 13, lost...
...Harold W. Sweatt, 62, moved up from president to board chairman of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. But he will still keep an active eye on the company. Sweatt started off in the family-owned business, when the firm had 50 employees and one product, built it up to 24,000 employees and annual sales of $200 million. Moving into Sweatt's old job is Paul B. Wishart, 55, U.S. Naval Academy graduate who directed the company's postwar expansion into more than 9,000 kinds of automatic controls for everything from gas heaters to guided missiles...
...George Washington Jr. of Dallas was among the first group of Negroes to enter the University of Texas law school as a result of the Sweatt Case† At first, says Washington, the atmosphere was "icy and uncomfortable." and one night a K.K.K.-type cross was set ablaze in front of the law building. But next morning, as he walked to class, groups of white students stopped him and apologized for the Klansters. After that, Washington had only one unpleasant experience-the time when a fellow student used the word nigger in class. Washington felt that the student had acted...
...Heman Sweatt, a Negro mail carrier, was turned down in 1946, when he asked admission to the University of Texas law school. A 1950 Supreme Court decision ordered him admitted...
Disappointed at his failure, Heman Sweatt is still sure that his time has not been wasted. Said he: "There were no incidents. I may have lost my personal ambition, but I think the manner in which others are getting along with the white students proves it can work...