Facts: The plaintiff, Hemen Marion Sweatt, was denied admission to the University of Texas because he was black. Instead, Sweatt was offered enrollment to a newly established law school for blacks, but he declined the offer.
Decision: At the time of this case, the Supreme Court had recently found in a number of cases that the equal protection clause was violated when states failed to provide whites and blacks the same educational opportunities. The Court decided that the law school for blacks was not equal to the state law school and ordered the university to admit Sweatt.
