During the mid-20th century, partly as a result of cases such as Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45 ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649 ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U. S. 1 ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ); McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U. S. 637 ( 1950 ); NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U. S. 449 ( 1958 ); Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U. S. 454 ( 1960 ) and probably the most famous, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 ), the tide against segregation began to turn.

In Sweatt v. Painter, the Supreme Court addressed a legal challenge to the doctrine by a student seeking admission to a state supported law school in Texas.

The U. S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ); Powell v. Alabama ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents ( 1950 ) led to a shift in tactics, and from 1955 to 1965, " direct action " was the strategy — primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and social movements.

of Okla., Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.

Yet, Reed had written the majority decision in Smith v. Allwright and joined the majority in Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ), which barred separate but equal racial segregation in law schools.

Other educational institutions currently have large numbers of blacks in their student body, but as they were founded ( or opened their doors to African Americans ) after the implementation of the Sweatt v. Painter and Brown v. Board of Education rulings by the U. S. Supreme Court ( the court decisions which outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities ) and the Higher Education Act of 1965, they are not historically black colleges, but have been termed " predominantly black.

Sweatt v. Painter,, was a U. S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the " separate but equal " doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.

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The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education.

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This sit-in directly challenged the oldest White Citizens Party in Texas and would culminate in the reversal of Jim Crow laws in the state and the desegregation of postgraduate studies in Texas by the Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ) verdict.

( See Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ).

On racial segregation, he wrote that states practicing the separate but equal doctrine must provide facilities that were truly equal, in Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.

Painter was president of the University of Texas when Texas resident Hermon Marion Sweatt applied and was denied admission due to his race.

Subsequently, Painter was the named defendant in the famous civil rights case, Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ), which proved an integral stepping stone in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that held that " separate is inherently unequal " and lead to the integration of America's public schools.

This case together with Sweatt v. Painter, which was decided the same day, marked the end of the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson in graduate and professional education.

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More important, however, were the companion cases Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, both decided in 1950.

Daniel defended the University of Texas law school in the 1950 Sweatt v. Painter desegregation case.

* June 5 – In Sweatt v. Painter the Supreme Court rules that a separate-but-equal Texas law school was actually unequal, partly in that it deprived black students from the collegiality of future white lawyers.

Heman Sweatt tried to enroll in the University of Texas Law school, but was denied entry because of the color of his skin ; he sued and the Texas Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of postgraduate studies in Texas in the Sweatt v. Painter decision.

However, Justice Ginsburg held that the VWIL would not provide women with the same type of rigorous military training, facilities, courses, faculty, financial opportunities, and / or alumni reputation and connections that VMI affords male cadets, a decision evocative of Sweatt v. Painter, when the Court ruled in 1950 that segregated law schools in Texas were unconstitutional, since a newly formed black law school clearly did not provide the same benefits to its students as the state's prestigious and long-maintained white law school.

Sweatt and the NAACP next went to the federal courts, and the case ultimately reached the U. S. Supreme Court.

Summary: Correspondence, newspapers, clippings, broadsides, ephemera, speeches, programs, notes, platforms, annual reports, printed material, magazines and artifacts relate to the Cook's involvement with the National Alliance of Postal Workers ( Houston Chapter ), the NAACP in Houston, service at the U. S. Post Office at Houston, the Progressive Party, the Henry Wallace presidential campaign, Leonard Sweatt, Heman Sweatt, John Butler and with unions.

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in June, 1950, Sweatt must be allowed admission.

Sweatt had met all the requirements, except that Texas schools were segregated by law.

Instead of granting Sweatt a writ of mandamus to attend the University of Texas, the trial court granted a continuance for six months to allow the state time to create a law school for blacks.

In Sweatt, the Court considered the constitutionality of Texas's state system of law schools, which educated blacks and whites at separate institutions.

In February 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, an African American man, applied to the University of Texas School of Law.

Herman Marion Sweatt, a black student, was denied admission to the University of Texas Law School in February 1946.

Lincoln denounced the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford as a conspiracy to extend slavery.

In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.

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