Heman Marion Sweatt
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American civil-rights activist
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- Bachelors English Wiley College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Heman Marion Sweatt was an African-American civil rights activist who confronted Jim Crow laws. He is best known for the Sweatt v. Painter lawsuit, which challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine and was one of the earliest of the events that led to the desegregation of American higher education.
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