Heman Sweatt (center) on a return visit to UT Austin, ca. 1974. He was hosted by UT President Stephen Spurr (right) and Dr. John Warfield, director of the Center for African and African American Studies from 1973-86 and a professor at the University until his retirement in 1999. To honor Heman Sweatt for his monumental impact on the course of civil rights history in Texas and throughout the nation, UT Austin hosts an annual Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights every spring. Photograph courtesy of the Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, CN 01465.
