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Category: Flashback

  • Archival image of Heman Sweatt

    September 17, 2020

    History Made 70 Years Ago This Week: Heman Sweatt Enrolls

    The story begins on a Tuesday: February 26, 1946, when Heman Marion Sweatt appeared at the Office of the Registrar of The University of Texas at Austin, seeking admission to the School of Law. Sweatt, a native of Houston’s Third Ward, had been a standout student at Wiley College, the historically black, private college in […]
  • Portrait of Dean Keeton

    November 6, 2019

    Dean Page Keeton and Academic Freedom at UT Austin: Three Archival Letters

    Josiah Daniel ’78, a retired Partner in Residence of the Vinson & Elkins Dallas office, is writing a biography of Dallas congressman Hatton W. Sumners, based on his papers in the Dallas Historical Society’s archive. While researching that project, Daniel came across a fascinating time capsule of law school history: An episode from 1960 involving […]