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What was the historical significance of sweatt vs painter?

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The case successfully challenged the separate-but-equal doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson

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Sweatt v. Painter is famous today in Supreme Court history in that it laid the foundation for the argument used a few years later in Brown v. Board of Education

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