LEADER 03912nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910964417303321 005 20251117083706.0 010 $a9781611920383 010 $a1611920388 035 $a(CKB)2670000000185680 035 $a(EBL)3115122 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000652887 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12293042 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652887 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10643187 035 $a(PQKB)11431174 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3115122 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3115122 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10555560 035 $a(OCoLC)922965661 035 $a(MiFhGG)9781611920383 035 $a(BIP)41425811 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000185680 100 $a20060301d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$a"Colored men" and "hombres aqui" $eHernandez v. Texas and the emergence of Mexican-American lawyering /$fMichael A. Olivas. Ed. ; foreword by Mark Tushnet 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHouston, Tex. $cArte Publico Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (395 p.) 225 1 $aHispanic Civil Rights Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781558854765 311 08$a1558854762 327 $a""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction"" 330 $aThis collection of ten essays commemorates the 50th anniversary of an important but almost forgotten U.S. Supreme court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 US 475 (1954), the major case involving Mexican Americans and jury selection, published just before Brown v. Board of Education in the 1954 Supreme Court reporter. This landmark case, the first to be tried by Mexican American lawyers before the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Mexican Americans were a discrete group for purposes of applying Equal Protection. Although the case was about discriminatory state jury selection and trial practices, it has been cited for many other civil rights precedents in the intervening 50 years. Even so, it has not been given the prominence it deserves, in part because it lives in the shadow of the more compelling Brown v. Board case. There had been earlier efforts to diversify juries, reaching back at least to the trial of Gregorio Cortez in 1901 and continuing with efforts by the legendary Oscar Zeta Acosta in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Even as recently as 2005 there has been clear evidence that Latino participation in the Texas jury system is still substantially unrepresentative of the growing population. But in a brief and shining moment in 1954, Mexican-American lawyers prevailed in a system that accorded their community no legal status and no respect. Through sheer tenacity, brilliance, and some luck, they showed that it is possible to tilt against windmills and slay the dragon. Edited and with an introduction by University of Houston law scholar Michael A. Olivas, Colored Men and Hombres Aqui is the first full-length book on this case. This volume contains the papers presented at the Hernandez at 50conference which took place in 2004 at the University of Houston Law Center and also contains source materials, trial briefs, and a chronology of the case. 410 0$aHispanic Civil Rights Series 606 $aTrials (Murder)$zTexas$zJackson County 606 $aRace discrimination$zTexas$zJackson County 606 $aJury selection$zUnited States 607 $aJackson County (Tex.)$vTrials, litigation, etc 615 0$aTrials (Murder) 615 0$aRace discrimination 615 0$aJury selection 676 $a347.73/75209764127 701 $aOlivas$b Michael A$01167479 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964417303321 996 $a"Colored men" and "hombres aqui"$94322735 997 $aUNINA