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...cold February morning in 1946, a slender, bespectacled young man walked into the University of Texas registrar's office and applied for admission to the law school. Heman Marion Sweatt, 33, a Houston mailman who had graduated from a small Southern college, was qualified in every respect but one: he was a Negro. He was the first who ever tried to enter the University. He was turned down flat...
...year, the battle raged in & out of courtrooms, in the press, at public meetings. When Sweatt filed a petition for a court order to force the University to admit him, a cautious judge deferred decision for six months, in December turned down the petition. Sweatt appealed the case. This time, he and the N.A.A.C.P. left no doubt as to what they were really after. Fed up with half-measures and delays, they were demanding, not "equal facilities," but the abolition of segregation. "The requirements of the 14th Amendment," they insisted, "can only [thus...
Neither Heman Sweatt nor the N.A.A...
...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...
...Negro, Heman Marion Sweatt, told newsmen that he just wanted to study law, not appeal...