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Travis County Courthouse
... that overcrowding at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, is being relieved by the county's acquisition of a "new" courthouse built in 1936?Source: "The U.S. government's ... disused 1936 courthouse just happened to match the pressing needs of the Travis County justice system." (King, Michael (December 29, 2016). "Travis County Catches a Judicial Break". The Austin Chronicle.)- ALT1:... that the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse was named in honor of an early trial in the African-American civil rights movement that was first heard there in 1946? Source: "Travis County renamed the Courthouse as the “Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse” ... in honor of Heman Marion Sweatt, a civil rights pioneer who successfully challenged the policy of segregation at the University of Texas Law School." ("The Courthouse". Travis County Archives.)
- Reviewed: Johannes Kalitzke
Created by Bryanrutherford0 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:57, 7 December 2017 (UTC).
Interesting and well-organized, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I prefer the civil right ALT. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)