Mexican Americans in Post-War America, 1945-1960
The Status of Mexican Americans in Post-war America
Mexican Americans and the Red Scare
McCarthyism
Senator Joe McCarthy
Second Red Scare
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI Director
Tabs on People
Senator Joe McCarthy
Labeled
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 1947
Hollywood Ten
Black Lists
Salt of the Earth
Rosaura Revueltas
The Bracero Program
1942 Bilateral Agreement
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Operation Wetback, 1954
Internal Security Act
McCarran-Walter Act
The Fight vs. Discrimination
G.I. Generation
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League of United Latin American Citizens
Goal
Stop Deportations
Eliminate Segregation
American G.I. Forum
Hector P. Garcia
Mendez vs. Westminster School Districts, 1947
Protection under the 5th and 14th Amendments
Ruling
Federal Judge Paul McCormik - issued the ruling
League of United Latin American Citizens
Salvatierra v. Del Rio ISD, 1930
Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD, 1948
Desegregation of U.S. Armed Forces, 1948
Hernandez vs. Texas, 1954
Pete Hernandez
A Class Apart Theory
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Ruling
Jim Crow Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1890
“separate but equal doctrine”
“with all deliberate speed”
Staggered Integration
Pairing
Latino Classification as White
Henry B. Gonzalez, 1956
White Resistance
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White Citizen’s Council
Ku Klux Klan
Mexican American Families
Economic Organizations
Political Organizations
Mexican American Women
Mexican American Labor Unions
The Radicalism of ANMA
Community Service Organization
Mexican Americans and the Korean War
Mexican American Academics
Mexican American Literature
Mexican Americans and the Arts
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