Justice Deferred
What president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after JFK’s assasination?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
According to Rumbaut, differences in skin color only gain meaning through this kind of social process.
What is racialization?
What was the name of the Mexican American whose citizenship was revoked?
What is Clemente Martínez Pérez
This 1965 act banned literacy tests and introduced federal preclearance to protect African American voters.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
In the 2000 Census, 43% of Hispanics, reflecting the history of mestizaje, chose this option rather than selecting White, Black, or Asian
What is the "other race"?
What was the Bracero Program?
The Bracero Program was a U.S. initiative that brought Mexican workers to the United States to perform farm labor.
The violent event on March 7, 1965, where state troopers attacked peaceful marchers in Alabama, became known as this.
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
Due to protests by Mexican American civil rights groups, the classification of Mexicans as a separate race was eliminated after being briefly used in this decennial census year.
What is the 1930 census?
What was the purpose of the Migrant Labor Agreement regarding Mexican contract workers?
It stated that Mexican contract workers could not replace domestic workers or lower domestic farm wages and aimed to protect both Mexican workers and U.S. farm operators while regulating labor migration.
In United States v. Cecil Price (1966), the Supreme Court allowed prosecution of private individuals for violating civil rights because they acted in concert with these officials.
What are public officers?
In the 2000 U.S. Census, this specific Latin American group had the highest proportion, at 84.4 percent, of its population self-identifying racially as "white"
What is Cubans?
Why was Clemente Martínez Pérez American citizenship revoked by the supreme court?
His citizenship was revoked because he voted in an election in Mexico and failed to fulfill his U.S. military obligations.
This 1968 Supreme Court case used the Thirteenth Amendment to outlaw racial discrimination in private housing sales.
What is Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.?
This 1954 Supreme Court case saw the state of Texas argue that the systematic exclusion of Mexican Americans from juries was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment because Mexican Americans were legally classified as white
What is Hernández vs. Texas?
Why did some Braceros leave their assigned farms in the U.S?
Many left because of poor conditions, delayed or missing wages, or natural issues like rain that affected their work.