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Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
According to House concurrent resolution 253, 400,000 to 500,000 Hispanic Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, out of a total of 16,000,000. Most were of Mexican or Puerto Rican descent. [10] [11] [12] By another estimate, over 500,000 Mexican-Americans served [13] plus over 65,000 Puerto Ricans [14] and smaller ...
This program, which commenced in Stockton, California in August 1942, [8] was intended to fill the labor shortage in agriculture because of World War II. In Texas, the program was banned by Mexico for several years during the mid-1940s due to the discrimination and maltreatment of Mexicans, which included lynchings along the border.
Felix Z. Longoria (April 16, 1920 – June 16, 1945) was an American soldier from Texas, who served in the United States Army as a private. He died during World War II and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery [1] after veterans supported his cause in a dispute over his funerary arrangements.
One of the biggest sources of agricultural jobs for Mexicans in the United States during World War II was the Bracero Program, a temporary work agreement between the U.S. and Mexico through which workers would enter the United States for a certain amount of time, and then return to Mexico. Women were not included in the Bracero Program, yet it ...
During this time period, the United States segregated Mexican-Americans from Whites in laws referred to as "Jaime Crow". [5] However, within the Texas public school systems, including Bastrop Independent School District, policies regarding the separation of students of a Spanish origin was largely implemented by the various districts. [3]
After World War II, the League of United Latin American Citizens filed a lawsuit in Texas to eliminate educational segregation of Mexican-American children in school systems. In June 1948, the federal court in Austin stated that this kind of segregation was unconstitutional because it violated the Fourteenth Amendment. [ 36 ]
In the early years of the 1920’s Texas schools were allowed to segregate Mexican-American students with little curriculum focusing on vocational training. In 1930, LULAC filed a lawsuit against the Del Rio school district in Texas on behalf of the parents of Mexican -American children due to segregation between Mexican Americans and Anglo ...