USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1947 California did away with their school segregation laws. 1948-Delgado v Bastrop I.S.D.: Because of Mendez v Westminster School District, the Texas Attorney General decided that segregation of Mexican American children was illegal.

Detailed explanation-2: -The judge of Delgado v. Bastrop ISC ruled that the California decision did apply in Texas, and that no Mexican-American child could be segregated from white schools. It was one of the first successful challenges to a rigid system of racial segregation against Latinos.

Detailed explanation-3: -This court case ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional and overtruned the former decision to end public school segregation. This court case declared that segregation of Mexican-American children in schools in Texas is illegal.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1948, with the support of LULAC and the legal assistance of Gus Garcia, Minerva Delgado and 20 other parents of Mexican American children filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging the segregation of their children in five Texas public school districts.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.