Sweatt v. Painter

Further Reading

Articles

• Kirk, W. Aston, and John T. Q. King. “Desegregation of Higher Education in Texas.” Journal of Negro Education 27, no. 3 (Summer 1958): 318–323.
• Levy, David W. “Before Brown: The Racial Integration of American Higher Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 298–313.

Books

• Browne-Marshall, Gloria J. Race, Law, and American Society: 1607–Present. New York: Routledge, 2007.
• Davis, Abraham L., and Barbara Luck Graham. The Supreme Court, Race, and Civil Rights: From Marshall to Rehnquist. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1995.
• Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
• Harrison, Maureen, and Steve Gilbert, eds. Civil Rights Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court: 20th Century. San Diego, Calif.: Excellent Books, 1994.
• Howard, John R. The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
• Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Tsesis, Alexander. We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008.
• Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3rd rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Web Sites

• Burns, Richard Allen. “Heman Marion Sweatt.” Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online//articles/SS/fsw23.html.