Format:
Book
Title:
Before Brown : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the long road to justice / Gary M. Lavergne.
Author:
Lavergne, Gary M., 1955-
Call Number:
C344.764079 L388be 2010
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Description:
x, 354 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., ports., photos ; 24 cm.
Series:
Jess and Betty Jo Hay series
Jess and Betty Jo Hay series.
Subjects:
Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Segregation in higher education -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
African American college students -- Texas -- Biography.
African Americans -- Texas -- Biography.
University of Texas at Austin -- History -- 20th century.
Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 1889-1969 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.
Texas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Contents:
Prologue -- One of the great prophets -- The cast of characters -- Iron shoes -- The shadow of failure -- The second emancipation -- A university of the first class -- "A brash moment" -- The great day -- "Time is of essence" -- "The tenderest feeling" -- The basement school -- A line in the dirt -- "I don't believe in segregation" -- The sociological argument -- The house that Sweatt built -- "Don't we have them on the run" -- A shattered spirit -- The big one -- Why Sweatt won -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
9780292722002 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0292722001 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780292784895 (e-book)
0292784899 (e-book)