The Case of Sweatt V. Painter

question 7

Multiple Choice

The case of Sweatt v. Painter

• A) invalidated the exclusion of black students from law school absent some other provision from their legal training.
• B) rejected an attempt to create a separate law school for blacks by roping off a section of the state capitol and assigning three law teachers to them.
• C) invalidated an attempt to create an alternative law school for blacks because any such alternative would be inherently different in the reputation of its faculty.
• D) rejected as "unequal" an attempt to provide graduate education to a black student by making him sit in a classroom surrounded by a railing marked "reserved for colored."
• E) ruled that no scheme of racial discrimination can stand if "there is state participation through any arrangement, management, fund, or property."