NVC Research Guides: Connecting to Community: San Antonio's West Side : Landmark Cases

Hernandez v Texas (1954)

Oyez: Hernandez v Texas
Is it a denial of the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause to try a defendant of a particular race or ethnicity before a jury where all persons of his race or ancestry have, because of that race or ethnicity, been excluded by the state?
Library of Congress: 1954: Hernandez v. Texas
A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events in the United States
HERNANDEZ V. TEXAS " A Class Apart"

San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez

Oyez--San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
Did Texas' public education finance system violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by failing to distribute funding equally among its school districts?
Rodriguez v. San Antonio ISD :TSHA
RODRIGUEZ V. SAN ANTONIO ISD.Rodríguez et al. v. San Antonio ISD, a class-action suit, was a 1971 landmark case in which a federal district court declared the Texas school-finance system unconstitutional.

Namesake in SAISD v Rodriguez: Demetrio Rodriguez

In the late 1960s, a frustrated San Antonio father helped launch the fight for better school funding in Texas. Learn how his passion for justice inspired future generations.

Edgewood v Kirby (1989)

EDGEWOOD ISD V. KIRBY
Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby
A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court unanimously ruled that education was a fundamental constitutional right and that wealth-based classifications such as Texas had created were constitutionally suspect.
TSHA: Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
EDGEWOOD ISD V. KIRBY.In Edgewood Independent School District et al. v. Kirby et al., a landmark case concerning public school finance, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit against commissioner of education William Kirby on May 23, 1984, in Travis County on behalf of the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, citing discrimination against students in poor school districts.

Book

Hispanic Civil Rights Series by Michael A. Olivas
ISBN: 9781611920383
This collection of ten essays commemorates the 50th anniversary of an important but almost forgotten U.S. Supreme court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 US 475 (1954), the major case involving Mexican Americans and jury selection, published just before Brown v. Board of Education in the 1954 Supreme Court reporter. This landmark case, the first to be tried by Mexican American lawyers before the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Mexican Americans were a discrete group for purposes of applying Equal Protection.
San Antonio V. Rodriguez and the Pursuit of Equal Education by Paul A. Sracic
ISBN: 9780700614837
When Arthur Gochman filed a class-action suit in 1968 on behalf of San Antonio school children, he and his clients were directly challenging the inequality of education funding in Texas. They argued that quality education, not merely basic schooling, was a constitutional right, and a district court agreed.
Politics and Public Education by Gregory G. Rocha
Call Number: ** On Order**
ISBN: 9780314029225