THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Wisconsin v Yoder
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Mendez v Westminster
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Delgado v Bastrop ISD
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Sweatt v Painter
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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 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: -BASTROP (1948) CASE SUMMARY. In 1930 in Salvatierra v. Del Rio Independent School District, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) filed suit in a Texas district court on behalf of the parents of Mexican American children attending public school in Del Rio, Texas.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Topeka Brown case is important because it helped convince the Court that even when physical facilities and other “tangible” factors were equal, segregation still deprived minority children of equal educational opportunities.