#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1954: The Supreme Court unanimously rules that the Fourteenth Amendment applies to all races, nationalities and ethnicities. The decision in Hernandez v. Texas broadened civil rights laws to include Mexican Americans and other groups. /1 - ThreadSky

bambooshooti.bsky.social • 2 days ago

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Today in history, 1954: The Supreme Court unanimously rules that the Fourteenth Amendment applies to all races, nationalities and ethnicities. The decision in Hernandez v. Texas broadened civil rights laws to include Mexican Americans and other groups. /1

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donjanes.bsky.social•2 days ago

Alas, Roe vs. Wade . . .

dugginsnews.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.apr.org/2025-02-25/the-view-from-denmark-on-alabamas-civil-rights-record

angelbrise.bsky.social•2 days ago

🙏🏻

williamstlucia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well as you said today in history... AND THAT HISTORY IS ALL GETTING REWRITTEN RIGHT NOW. NONE OF US ARE LEGAL ANYMORE. UNLESS YOU LOOK LIKE THE FOUNDING FATHERS..
AND I DON'T🤬

befriended.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think Republicans are trying to take that amendment away

bailey911.bsky.social•2 days ago

God bless these men for choosing right over wrong. May we always choose right over wrong. Little tough now but once the brainwashed MAGAtts realize how evil Trump and his henchmen are, they will come to understand how important rule of law and human dignity is.

bewildered37.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump, and his Republican Fascist sycophants are destroying America’s relationship with its allies while encouraging and empowering Vladimir Putin. This traitorous triumvirate is working to replace our Constitutional Republic with a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy.

peterdesocio.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mendez v Westminster (1947) is a landmark federal (SD CA and 9th CC) case desegregating Calif public schools, pre-Brown v Board, and which influenced Thurgood Marshall's strategy in Brown (he also wrote a brief in support). It attacked White/Mexican segregation. https://blog.counselstack.com/mendez-v-westminster-the-pioneering-case-that-ended-school-segregation/

kparent.bsky.social•2 days ago

Your either fighting with people or for people.

didsomeonesayrum.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for this. I took a Mexican Chicano Studies in College and it was an eye opening experience. I learned so much more of my culture that I never knew. History is so white washed.

lesliehilton0131.bsky.social•1 day ago

Justice and equality for all. Peace ✌️

bambooshooti.bsky.social•2 days ago

Peter Hernandez was a Mexican American agricultural worker who was convicted of murder in 1951. His pro bono legal team appealed the ruling because there were no Mexicans on the jury, even though Jackson County, Texas, had a large Hispanic population. /2

bambooshooti.bsky.social•2 days ago

The State of Texas argued that Mexicans were White and the 14th Amendment only guaranteed equal protection under the law to African Americans. The lawyers had to prove that Hernandez was deprived of equal protection because he was not tried by a jury of his peers. /3

bambooshooti.bsky.social•2 days ago

In fact, the attorneys found no one with a Hispanic last name in 25 years’ worth of jury records. Texas did not officially bar Hispanics from jury service, but the lawyers argued there was “systematic exclusion of persons of Mexican origin … in at least 70 counties.” /4

bambooshooti.bsky.social•2 days ago

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the Supreme Court’s decision that the Fourteenth Amendment did apply. He said, “The Fourteenth Amendment is not directed solely against discrimination due to a ‘two-class theory’ — that is, based upon differences between ‘white’ and Negro.” /5

bambooshooti.bsky.social•2 days ago

The decision has had immense consequences for every minority group that has sought equal protection in the face of racial discrimination. By the way, Hernandez v. Texas was the first case in which Hispanic lawyers argued before the Supreme Court. /end

freepanz.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Supreme Court Justices asked lawyer Gus Garcia whether Mexican Americans even spoke English or were citizens.

Garcia famously replied, "My people were in Texas a hundred years before Sam Houston, that wetback from Tennessee."

marcorobbin.bsky.social•2 days ago

As always, thank you Cheré!

madamedefarge2a.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for sharing this, Shooti. Very interesting and I had no idea before reading this.

Imagine if we tried to tell Trump that Mexicans were white. Heads....Exploding!

totaldistance.bsky.social•1 day ago

Left out sexes.

darkcafe5.bsky.social•2 days ago

Americans of Mexican descent have been fighting oppression for centuries. They also desegregated the first Public School in Los Angeles.

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