A Class Apart: Are Mexicans White?

PBS Learning Media
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Resource Type
Classroom Material
Keywords
Latino Americans 1950s Segregation Institutional racism White America Racism Resistance Trials Black Americans Equal rights Trials Stereotypes Oppression Resisting oppression Resistance discrimination Jim Crow State laws
Subjects
History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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A Class Apart: Are Mexicans White?

In the 1950s, Mexican-Americans took to the courts to achieve equality under the law. This fight against discrimination included the right, fought for in Hernandez v. Texas, to be tried by a jury of their peers. Video from, American Experience: "A Class Apart."
Publisher
PBS Learning Media

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