[Sweatt) may claim his full constitutional right: legal education equivalent to that offered by the State to
students of other races. Such education is not available to
him in a separate law school as offered by the State
We hold that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment requires that petitioner be admitted to the
University of Texas Law School.
-U. S. Supreme Court, Sweatt v. Painter, 1950
This ruling paved the way for which of the following occurrences?
A. President Truman desegregating the U. S. armed forces
B. The Supreme Court overturning the doctrine of "separate but
equal"
C. Congress passing the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
D. The Republican Party beginning to dominate southern politics