A Class Apart – Flashcards

This information was gathered from the reader (p243) in an article written by Ignacio Garcia and a documentary in lecture

The hot tempered cotton picker who shot Oralia’s father, Joe “Caetano” Espinoza

Young lawyer looking for a case that would bring

Man who painstaikingly wrote out the class apart

Mexican-American community supported this case with prayers and money

He stated “it taxes our credulity to say that mere chance resulted in there being no members of this class (Mexican Americans) among the over six thousand jurors called in the past twenty-five years [in Jackson County, Texas]. The results bespeak discrimination…” (244).

Law suit against Texas for denying Hernandez jury of peers. Difficult because Texas responded that the White jury was a jury of his peers (they straight up lied knowing that discrimination against Mexicans from Whites was historically great in the state).

Espinosa is shot in a pub of this farming town of Texas

Supreme Court Ruling reverses Hernandez’s conviction. Pre-Civil Rights Era. Two weeks before the more famous case, Brown v Board of Education.

This case brought national attention on the social discrimination Mexican Americans faced. First time the Mexican race is acknowledged in the supreme court. The supreme court rules in favor of Hernandez, and orders that he be retried under jury of his peers