Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justi

The inspiring story of the courageous Houston mailman whose struggle to attend the University of Texas School of Law provided the precedent for the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that ended segregation in public education.

Author: Gary M. Lavergne
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780292742956
About the Author
GARY M. LAVERGNE is the author of Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law, Bad Boy From Rosebud: The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff, and A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders. He has appeared o