Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two desegregation cases that challenged the long-held principle of “separate but equal” established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Thurgood Marshall and W. J. Durham, lawyers for the National Association for the ...

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