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After Marion Sweatt's application to attend the University of Texas School of Law was rejected, he sued. Sweatt v. Painter made it to the United States Supreme Court where in 1950 the Court handed down a ruling that required the school to integrate.
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Sweatt v. Painter: Archival and Textual Sources
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Handbook of Texas: Sweatt v. Painter
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