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Author:

Lavergne, Gary M., 1955-

Title:

Before Brown : Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the long road to justice / Gary M. Lavergne.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 354 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sweatt, Heman Marion,--1912-1982.
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.
Sweatt, Heman Marion,--1912-1982--Trials, litigation, etc.
Painter, Theophilus S.--(Theophilus Shickel),--1889-1969--Trials, litigation, etc.
Marshall, Thurgood,--1908-1993.
African Americans--History--Texas--History--20th century.
Texas--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Jess and Bettry Jo Hay series

ISBN:

0292722001 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292722002 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)473655291

LCCN:

2009049278

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)