1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704891103321

Autore

Becker Carol J.

Titolo

Groundwater quality and water-well characteristics in the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma Jurisdictional Area, central Oklahoma, 1948-2011 / / by Carol J. Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 32 pages) : color maps

Collana

Open-file report ; ; 2012-1255

Soggetti

Groundwater - Quality - Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma

Well water - Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma

Groundwater - Quality

Well water

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Two color map plates included.

"Prepared in cooperation with the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma."

Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 4, 2014).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 8-9).

Nota di contenuto

plate 1. Surficial geology, aquifers, and wells with historical water-quality data in the study area in parts of Lincoln, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie Counties, Oklahoma, 1948 to 2011 -- plate 2. Ranges in well yields and well depths, in addition to depth-to-water contours in the study area in parts of Lincoln, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie Counties, Oklahoma.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964417303321

Titolo

"Colored men" and "hombres aqui" : Hernandez v. Texas and the emergence of Mexican-American lawyering / / Michael A. Olivas. Ed. ; foreword by Mark Tushnet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houston, Tex., : Arte Publico Press, c2006

ISBN

9781611920383

1611920388

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Collana

Hispanic Civil Rights Series

Altri autori (Persone)

OlivasMichael A

Disciplina

347.73/75209764127

Soggetti

Trials (Murder) - Texas - Jackson County

Race discrimination - Texas - Jackson County

Jury selection - United States

Jackson County (Tex.) Trials, litigation, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""

Sommario/riassunto

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. Although the case was about discriminatory state jury selection and trial practices, it has been cited for many other civil rights precedents in the intervening 50 years. Even so, it has not been given the prominence it deserves, in part because it lives in the shadow of the more compelling Brown v. Board case. There had been earlier efforts to diversify juries, reaching back at least to the trial of Gregorio Cortez in 1901 and continuing with efforts by the legendary Oscar Zeta Acosta in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Even as recently as 2005 there has been clear evidence that Latino participation in the Texas jury system is still



substantially unrepresentative of the growing population. But in a brief and shining moment in 1954, Mexican-American lawyers prevailed in a system that accorded their community no legal status and no respect. Through sheer tenacity, brilliance, and some luck, they showed that it is possible to tilt against windmills and slay the dragon. Edited and with an introduction by University of Houston law scholar Michael A. Olivas, Colored Men and Hombres Aqui is the first full-length book on this case. This volume contains the papers presented at the Hernandez at 50conference which took place in 2004 at the University of Houston Law Center and also contains source materials, trial briefs, and a chronology of the case.