Racism in the United States has always been a big problem. The confrontations I learned about in school were the more notable ‘blacks v whites’. In Texas though, racism against Hispanics was common. The location of Texas and the fact that Texas used to be part of Mexico led to a large population of Mexican-Americans. The League of United Latin American Citizens was created to off-set some of the discrimination that Hispanics in the United States endured.
In 1929 LULAC was founded by the “merging of four organizations: the Corpus Christi council of the Sons of America, the Alice council of the Sons of America, the Knights of America, and the Latin American Citizens League in the Rio Grande valley and Laredo.” (Orozco, 2010) LULAC was founded because Hispanics were being denied basic civil and human rights. The group believe that through assimilation, Hispanics would have a greater chance of the fighting racism. While “praising its Mexican cultural heritage in its rhetoric, LULAC promoted the full adaptation of its members into the dominant US Anglo-Saxon culture, believing this strategy would be the most successful in combating discrimination.” (Kaplowitz, 2005)
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“LULAC fought for appointment of Mexican Americans to important federal and state positions, including the first Mexican-American federal judge in Texas, Reynaldo Garza, and the first Mexican-American United States ambassador, Raymond Telles.” (Marquez, 1993) LULAC members were also involved in Hernández v. State of Texas, which gave Mexican Americans the right to serve on a jury, thus ensuring ‘being judged by a jury of