Concept information
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legal specialisms
education law
higher education law
cases in higher education law: affirmative action and race-based admissions
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Sweatt v. Painter
Definition
- In Sweatt v. Painter (1950), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) built a pivotal case in the history of school segregation. Sweatt represents the first time the Court ordered a traditionally White university to admit an African American student instead of sending him to an African American university. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Sweatt v. Painter]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Date
- 1950
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Sweatt_v._Painter
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