What is the cost of changing the world? For those who dare, it can cost everything in their life, for good or ill. Heman Sweatt put everything on the line for his bid to desegregate the University of ...

What is the cost of changing the world? For those who dare, it can everything in their life, for good or ill. Heman Sweatt put everything on the line for his bid to desegregate the University of Texas ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the affirmative action case of Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin, as NPR's Nina Totenberg will report later today on All Things Considered.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published Feb. 12, 2023. MARSHALL — Before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, a lesser-known U.S. Supreme Court case in Texas paved the way for the end ...

1954's Brown v. Board of Education is the one of the most celebrated Supreme Court civil rights rulings, but the dry run against racial segregation began four years earlier, when Heman Marion Sweatt, ...

Despite his success at breaking down the legal wall of segregation that has long surrounded higher education in Texas, Heman Sweatt, 39, the first Negro admitted to the University of Texas law school, ...

One cold February morning in 1946, a slender, bespectacled young man walked into the University of Texas registrar’s office and applied for admission to the law school. Heman Marion Sweatt, 33, a ...

What is the cost of changing the world? For those who dare, it can be everything in their life, for good or ill. Heman Sweatt put everything on the line for his bid to desegregate the University of ...

When Fisher v. University of Texas, Austin was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Allan Van Fleet had drafted and filed an amicus brief on behalf of the family of Heman Marion Sweatt, which ...