The decision in 1950 by the Supreme Court that banned “separate but equal” law schools in Texas

The 1950 decision in Sweatt v. Painter ruled that Texas’s separate law school for Black students was not truly equal to the University of Texas law school. Its reasoning challenged racial segregation in graduate education beyond the particular Texas school, helping force graduate schools across the country to integrate. Thus, the best answer is “forced graduate schools across the country to integrate.”

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