Hernandez Vs. Texas

When we look back at the time when the Civil rights movement we just think of the people they were fighting for were the African Americans, but they weren't the only racial group that were being discriminated at the time. Mexicans and other Latin America minorities were being targeted in Texas. in class we learned that when Hernandez was trialed he was not given all the fairness he should have received. Looking at the jury that had given him their decision none of them were of the same racial group as he was. Mexican Americas were indeed classified as a social group at the time giving them the right to be part of jury duty, but from the time they had been given the opportunity to be part of a jury they were never chosen. This was due from the fact that the whites still viewed them as sub humans that were only given the citizenship because they were born there. If we look at the present day we can see that we as a nation have indeed progressed since we no longer see these kinds of jury in which one could have biased thoughts as a group since they are from the same racial group.