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Why did the Supreme Court rule that the University of Texas had to admit Herman Sweatt to its law school?

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In 1950 the Supreme Court ruled that the Univ. of Texas must admit a black, Herman Sweatt, to the law school, on the grounds that the state did not provide equal education for him.

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