Editing Sweatt v. Painter (section)

==Procedural history==
The state district court in [[Travis County, Texas]], instead of granting the plaintiff a writ of ''[[mandamus]]'', continued the case for six months.  This allowed the state time to create a law school only for black students, which it established in [[Houston]], rather than in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]].  The 'separate' law school and the college became the [[Thurgood Marshall School of Law]] at [[Texas Southern University]] (known then as "Texas State University for Negroes").

The Dean of the Law School at the time was [[Charles T. McCormick]]. He wanted a separate law school for black students.

[[Texas Attorney General]] at the time was [[Price Daniel]] who advocated fiercely for racial segregation.

The trial court decision was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court denied ''[[error coram nobis|writ of error]]'' on further appeal.  Sweatt and the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People|NAACP]] next went to the federal courts, and the case ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.  [[Robert L. Carter]] and [[Thurgood Marshall]] presented Sweatt's case.<ref name=":0" />