Heman Marion Sweatt

E96878

civil rights activist person plaintiff

Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.

Aliases (1)

Sweatt ×2

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil rights activist → person → plaintiff →
appliedTo	University of Texas School of Law →
burialPlace	Houston, Texas NERFINISHED →
caseDecisionDate	1950-06-05 →
causeOfDeath	heart disease →
commemoratedBy	Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights at the University of Texas at Austin →
contributedTo	erosion of the separate but equal doctrine in education →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1912-12-11 →
dateOfDeath	1982-10-03 →
denialReason	racial segregation →
deniedAdmissionBy	University of Texas School of Law →
describedIn	U.S. Supreme Court decision Sweatt v. Painter (1950) →
educatedAt	University of Michigan → Wiley College →
ethnicGroup	African American →
familyName	Sweatt →
fieldOfWork	civil rights →
fullName	Heman Marion Sweatt →
givenName	Heman →
hasOccupation	civil rights figure → postal worker →
hasReligion	Baptist →
honoredBy	University of Texas at Austin NERFINISHED →
impact	advanced desegregation of public higher education in the United States →
influenced	Brown v. Board of Education →
knownFor	being the plaintiff in Sweatt v. Painter → challenging racial segregation in higher education →
legalCase	Sweatt v. Painter →
legalCaseCourt	Supreme Court of the United States →
legalCaseOutcome	U.S. Supreme Court ordered his admission to the University of Texas Law School →
legalRepresentationBy	NAACP Legal Defense Fund → Thurgood Marshall →
memberOf	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People →
movement	American civil rights movement →
notableWork	Sweatt v. Painter →
opposedDoctrine	separate but equal →
placeOfBirth	Houston, Texas NERFINISHED →
placeOfDeath	Atlanta, Georgia →
residence	Atlanta, Georgia → Houston, Texas NERFINISHED →
sexOrGender	male →
significantEvent	Sweatt v. Painter →
spouse	Constantine Mitchell →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Heman Marion Sweatt ("Sweatt") → Heman Marion Sweatt ("Sweatt") →	familyName
Heman Marion Sweatt → Heman Marion Sweatt →	fullName
Sweatt v. Painter →	petitioner