Sweatt, Heman M.
Biography:
"Sweatt was a postal worker from Houston who filed suit in 1946 after being denied admission into the University of Texas School of Law. The state legislature responded by creating a 'separate but equal' law school for blacks at Texas State University in 1947."--Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court (Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas))
- The Administrative Side of Chief Justice Hughes (Case files)
- Docket sheet for McLaurin case (Dockets)
- Docket sheet for Quicksall case (Dockets)
- Docket sheet for Sweatt case (Dockets)
- Draft of Memo to Conference from Justice Clark (Case files)
- Draft of Memo to Conference from Justice Clark (Case files)
- Draft of Memo to Conference from Justice Clark (Case files)
- Draft of Memo to Conference from Justice Clark (Case files)
- Draft of opinion in McLaurin case delivered by Chief Justice Vinson (Case files)
- Draft of opinion in Sweatt case delivered by Chief Justice Vinson (Case files)
- Handwritten draft of memo to Conference from Justice Clark (Case files)
- Handwritten notes on Sweatt and McLaurin cases (Case files)
- Memo to Conference from Justice Clark about Sweatt and McLaurin cases (Case files)
- Memo to Justice Clark from law clerk about the Sweatt and McLaurin cases (Case files)
- Per curiam (McLaurin case) (Case files)
- Per curiam (McLaurin case) (Case files)
- Summary of Sweatt and McLaurin cases (Memorandums)
- Summary of Sweatt case (Case files)