Ferguson should be reexamined in the light of contemporary knowledge respecting the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment and the effects of racial segregation.' The decision was delivered on the same day as another case involving similar issues, McLaurin v. Nonetheless, the Court limited its ruling in finding that it was not necessary to 'reach 's contention that Plessy v. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of law student Sweatt, reasoning that the state's racially separate law school was in fact unequal. The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the ' separate but equal' doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v.
Texas Supreme Court reversed.Ĭhief Justice Fred M. Segregation as applied to the admissions processes for law school in the United States violates Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because separate facilities in legal education are inherently unequal.
