PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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racially segregated schools are inherently unequal
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a student has no guaranteed rights while in a public school
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a student’s right to privacy is limited under certain conditions.
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Mexican Americans were entitled to protection from discrimination under the 14th Amendment
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Detailed explanation-1: -The desegregation case was named Delgado et al vs. Bastrop Independent School District after one of the plaintiffs, Minerva Delgado. Federal Judge Ben H. Rice ruled in their favor, ending legal segregation of Mexican Americans in Texas.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1947 Delgado v. Bastrop ISC, it was determined that Mexican-American children could not be segregated from white schools. This was one of the first successful desegregation cases in the state.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -BASTROP (1948) DECISION. District Judge Ben Rice agreed that segregation of Mexican American students was not authorized by Texas law and violated the equal protection of the law clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.