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Black activist seeks admission to segregated university
On this day in 1946, black activist Heman Sweatt, accompanied by a
delegation from the NAACP, met with University of Texas president
Theophilus S. Painter and other university officials to present a formal
request for admission to the UT law school. The legal case resulting from
this request, Sweatt v. Painter, was a landmark civil-rights decision, one
of several that struck down the doctrine of "separate but equal"
educational facilities. Sweatt finally registered at the University of
Texas law school on September 19, 1950.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- SWEATT, HEMAN MARION
- SWEATT V. PAINTER
- CIVIL-RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- EDUCATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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