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Before Brown:

Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and The Long Road to Justice

 

Click here or on the picture above to view the panel discussion on the University of Texas Website

 

 

January 27, 2011

Gary M. Lavergne presented the inaugural keynote address for the 2011 Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights. Click on the image below to hear his entire address. The first six minutes are a welcoming address by Dr. Greg Vincent, Vice President of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.


January 27, 2011

During the evening the UT Division of Diversity and Community Engagement and Undergraduate Admissions Center hosted a reception honoring the Sweatt family and special guest Gary Lavergne, the author of Before Brown. This was a very special event for the University.


January 27, 2011

KVR Reporter Cameron Whitaker takes you to the 25th annual Heman Sweatt Symposium in honor of Heman Sweatt who in 1950 became first African American admitted to the University of Texas.


UT celebrates law school integration: kxan.com


 

April 22, 2010

During the 24th Annual Heman Sweatt Symposium Gary M. Lavergne used the opportunity to do a reading from his forthcoming book, Before Brown to pay tribute to an unsung hero in the Civil Rights Movement: Dr. W. Astor Kirk.

Tribute to W. Astor Kirk

 

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

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