FORTHCOMING - Fall 2010



Gary Lavergne announces the forthcoming publication of his next book.

BEFORE BROWN:
Heman Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road To Justice

 

“Vivid, absorbing, and gracefully written, Before Brown explores the human cost of Heman Marion Sweatt’s simple, but hard-earned, ambition: to get a good education. Gary Lavergne’s gifts as a storyteller bring Sweatt’s journey, and the context of his struggle, alive."
Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly

Heman Sweatt is a hero whose name should be enshrined with Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston and William Barrett Travis.  Like Texas' founding fathers, Sweatt fearlessly faced evil, and made Texas a better place.  His story is our story, and Gary Lavergne tells it well."
Paul Begala, CNN News Analyst and former President of the UT-Austin Student Body

 

ENTER

"At last someone has told the story of Heman Sweatt, one of the great sons of the struggle for freedom and justice, with all the drama and passion it deserves."
Amilcar Shabazz, Professor and Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American
Studies, U. Mass Amherst

"Before Brown ably captures the complex, layered interplay of power, politics, and ideology that is the human drama in Heman Sweatt’s story. Lavergne masterfully highlights key ethical, legal, and policy issues throughout the book."
Lodis Rhodes, Professor, The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, UT Austin 


"What a great idea to bring to life the ordeal of Heman Marion Sweatt, his fight for justice, and the landmark victory that paved the way to Brown vs. the Board of Education.  And who better than Gary Lavergne, a talented writer and admissions officer at the center of other Texan breakthroughs in the quest for greater access to higher education, to write this compelling narrative?" 

Patrick Weil, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Centre d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle, Université de Paris 1, Sorbonne-Pantheon

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