Law School (Sources, 2005; Sweatt, 2004). State law restricted access to the university to whites, and Sweatt's application was automatically rejected. When Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission they attempted to provide separate but equal admission at a black law school. Sweatt was represented by the NAACP legal team headed by Thurgood Marshall and the case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which struck down the "separate but equal" graduate school education system. The law school for Negroes was considered grossly unequal to the University of Texas Law School. The separate school would have been unequal in course variety, library facilities, legal writing opportunities, and in a number of other areas. The Court also found that the mere separation of these students harmed their ability to compete in the legal arena.
One of the most significant decisions of the Supreme Court in the 20th century was in the case of Gomillion vs, Lightfoot, 1960, in which the Court ruled that in gerrymandering the city boundaries of Tuskagee, Alabama, so as to remove all but a handful of the city's black registered voters, the city had violated the 15th Amendment (Hono
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