CITATION: Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950) LEGAL ISSUE: Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees black students, namely Sweatt, equal educational opportunities granted to white students in … Texas Supreme Court’s decision is reversed. The SWEATT v. PAINTER et al. That case 'did not present the issue whether a state might not satisfy the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by establishing a … Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Fourteenth Amendment, Texas statute barring Decided June 5, 1950. Rehearing Denied Oct. 9, 1950.
Although decisions had been rendered prior to Sweatt v. Painter indicating that the Supreme Court was shifting to a new and more exacting standing of equality that would ultimately require the state to be "color-blind" in all its activities, these decisions had not proceeded to the point of shaking the foundations of the long-established tradition of an attempt to get equality through segregation. black college applicants. 247. 299, 92 L.Ed.
opportunities granted to white students in Texas universities. Sweatt was denied admission solely because he was a Negro and state law forbids the admission of Negro's to that law school. After the University of Texas Law School acknowledged Petitioner was denied admission to the state-supported University of Texas Law School, solely because he is a Negro and state law forbids the admission of Negroes to that Law School. statute which barred Sweatt’s university enrollment on account of race.
R.A.V. Heman Marion Sweatt was an African-American mail carrier from Houston. Equal Protection Clause, No. Sweatt vs. Painter Facts of the Case. Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. Sweatt v. Painter (1950) case brief WWU, PLSC 415 . its discrimination practices, the state administrators “hastily established” an 44 Argued: April 4, 1950 Decided: June 5, 1950. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later. In the fall of 1950 Herman Marion Sweatt tried to enroll in the state-supported University of Texas law school. A decade earlier. Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment nullifies Texas’ discriminatory 44.
Theophilus Shickel Painter was the University of Texas' president at the time. Argued April 4, 1950. ... 68 S.Ct. Sweatt v. Painter is a landmark decision that began a robust use of the Equal Protection Clause to stop State governments from disadvantaging people based on race. Amendment guarantees black students, namely Sweatt, equal educational In this case it was to order the university president Theophilus Painter to admit Sweatt to their law school. The history of … interim law school specifically for black students.
July 17, 2014. While the Court did not expressly overrule the separate-but-equal doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson, this case marked a start down that road towards eliminating that discriminatory doctrine. Yes, the Equal SWEATT v. PAINTER(1950) No.