PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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stopped from voting in a Presidential election
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made to pay an unreasonable bail to released from jail
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denied an education in all-white school
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tried by a jury from which Mexican Americans had been systematically excluded
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Detailed explanation-1: -Court decided a landmark case-Hernandez v. Texas-regarding Hispanic civil rights. The justices ruled unanimously to overturn the murder conviction of a Mexican American farmworker, Pete Hernandez, because Mexican Americans had been barred from participating in the juries that indicted him and that convicted him.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Hernandez v. Texas, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to all racial and ethnic groups facing discrimination, effectively broadening civil rights laws to include Hispanics and all other non-whites.
Detailed explanation-3: -13. What arguments did the state of Texas use in its response? The state argued there was no attempt to discriminate and that it was just a coincidence that no Hispanics had served on a jury in Jackson County.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hernandez v. Texas was about much more than a murder trial. It was about fair representation of Mexican-American people within the United States justice system. It was, ultimately, a civil rights case about equal protections under the 14th Amendment.