Heman Marion Sweatt (second from right) volunteered to be the plaintiff in the desegregation lawsuit that the NAACP was formulating against The University of Texas in the mid-1940s. Prominent African American attorneys were involved, including (l to r) Harry Bellinger, W.J. Durham, and C.B. Bunkley. Photograph courtesy of the Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, Craft (Juanita Jewel Shanks) Collection, CN 02550.