Folders containing note cards and drafts for Author and Educator Gary Lavergne (cq) at his home in Cedar Park, Texas, Friday, November 5, 2010. Lavergne recently published a book titled Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice, which chronicles the landmark Supreme Court case from 1950, which lead to the first African American student admitted to the University of Texas. The case predated Brown vs Board of Education by four years...PHOTO/ MATT NAGER