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    Heman Marion Sweatt (December 11, 1912 – October 3, 1982) was an African-American civil rights activist who confronted Jim Crow laws. He is best known...
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  • Board of Education four years later. The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University...
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    The Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse is the county courthouse for Travis County, Texas. Located in downtown Austin, Texas (the county seat)...
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    certificates). The clerk is also elected at-large for a four-year term. The Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse is located in downtown Austin. The county...
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    courts, county courts, and other facilities, are located in the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse and other buildings in the Downtown Complex...
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  • Saint leader Heman R. Smith (1795–1861), American military officer Heman Marion Sweatt (1912–1982), American civil rights activist Heman Swift (1733–1814)...
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    changed to Houston College for Negroes in 1934. In February 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, an African American man, applied to the University of Texas School...
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    The Little Campus (officially the Heman Sweatt Campus) is a historic district and part of the University of Texas at Austin campus in Austin, Texas. Originally...
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    weapon. Austin is the county seat of Travis County and hosts the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse downtown, as well as other county government...
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  • complained about how stressful it was being the center of that attention. Heman Marion Sweatt, later the plaintiff in another desegregation case heard by the Supreme...
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  • Painter was president of the University of Texas when Texas resident Heman Marion Sweatt applied for and was denied admission due to his race. Subsequently...
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    challenged the segregationist policies of the PGA Heman Marion Sweatt Plaintiff in U.S. Supreme Court case, Sweatt v. Painter (1950); helped to found Texas Southern...
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  • school was sued in the civil rights case of Sweatt v. Painter (1950). The case involved Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man who was refused admission to the...
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  • to 1954. In Sweatt v. Painter, the Supreme Court addressed a legal challenge to the doctrine when a Texan black student, Heman Marion Sweatt, was seeking...
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    Nashville: Martin Luther King Magnet at Pearl High School Austin: Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse 1930,1931, Page Brothers Longview: Gregg...
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    Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, in 1950, which held that "separate but equal" professional legal education was unconstitutional. Heman Marion Sweatt...
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  • University Law Center 1983 Actions SULC 2011 National Bar Association’s Heman Marion Sweatt Award for excellence in the legal profession, March 2011 Golden Gate...
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  • being appointed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. A contemporary of Heman Sweatt he sought equal access to higher education at the University of Texas...
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  • Bar Association until 1949. The school came into being only after Heman Marion Sweatt, a Wiley College graduate denied entry to the University of Texas's...
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    at the University of Oklahoma's graduate school, and Sweatt v. Painter, which was Heman Sweatt's challenge to his being required to attend a blacks-only...
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  • at Austin. The Friar Society was founded in 1911 by Curtice Rosser and Marion Levy. Eight members were initially selected in the charter group. Originally...
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    a two-seater Champion Citabria light aircraft, from which sharpshooter Marion Lee attempted to obtain a clear shot of Whitman as the aircraft orbited...
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    Physics, Math and Astronomy Building; honor Heman M. Sweatt in numerous ways, including placing a statue of Sweatt near the entrance of  T.S. Painter Hall;...
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  • Hall Cactus Cafe Flawn Academic Center Garrison Hall Goldsmith Hall Heman Sweatt Campus J. Frank Dobie House Pickle Research Campus J.T. Patterson Labs...
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  • fraternity; Original Monford Point Marine Heman Sweatt Alpha Sigma Plaintiff in the US Supreme Court case styled Sweatt v. Painter, which successfully challenged...
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