Key: legal action, Southern Christian Leadership Conference…
Key: legal action, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, direct confrontation, United Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee, non violent resistance, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee The [answer1] was a major organization in the Chicano rights movement of the 1970s. This group used [answer2] to promote equal treatment for Latinos.
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But it taxes our credulity to say that mere chance resulted in their [sic] being no members of this class among the over six thousand jurors called in the past 25 years. The result bespeaks discrimination, . . . [Hernandez’s] only claim is the right to be indicted and tried by juries from which all members of his class are not systematically excluded – juries selected from among all qualified persons regardless of national origin or descent. To this much, he is entitled by the Constitution. — Chief Justice Earl Warren, Hernandez v. Texas, May 3, 1954 How did this Supreme Court decision affect judicial interpretations of the Constitution?
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