History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1852 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hernandez v. Texas
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The idea
In nineteen fifty-four, the year of Brown, the Supreme Court ruled in Hernandez v. Texas that Fourteenth Amendment protections reached all ethnic groups.
In practice
Pete Hernandez, a Mexican American labourer, tried for murder in Edna, Texas, by an all-Anglo jury, as the Yawp describes.
Where people slip
The Yawp says the ruling held Mexican Americans a distinct class entitled to equal protection.
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