Word: sweatt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...After ruling Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. for 34 years and transforming it from a one-horse manufacturer of furnace damper controls into a $426 million producer of computers and automatic controls for everything from ice cream plants to missiles, Harold W. Sweatt, 70, finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer. Elevated to the throne was President Paul Barclay Wishart, 63, Honeywell's crown prince for eleven years. An Annapolis graduate (class of '20), the natty, articulate Wishart ran a Packard agency in Minneapolis until 1942 when he came to Honeywell as a coordinator...