The 1950 Supreme Court decision to ban “separate but equal” law schools in Texas

In Sweatt v. Painter (1950), the Supreme Court ruled that Texas could not provide a separate law school for Black students as an equal alternative to the University of Texas law school. The ruling established a constitutional standard that affected graduate schools beyond Texas, requiring them to integrate when separate facilities were unequal. So the decision forced graduate schools across the country to integrate.

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