In 1967, the Gomez case overturned Texas’s adoption statutes as unconstitutional in violation of the Texas Constitution, as well as the due process and equal protection clauses of the United States Constitution. In the Gomez case, a black man who fathered two children out of wedlock with a Mexican woman applied to legitimize the children through an agreed adoption after he married their mother. The children were Mexican, born in Juarez, and were considered to be “of the white race.” At the time, Texas law stated that “No white child can be adopted by a negro person, nor can a negro child be adopted by a white person.” The law was still on the books in Texas even though the U.S. Supreme Court had condemned the “separate but equal” racial doctrine almost fifteen years earlier. The El Paso Court of Appeals invalidated the adoption statutes: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10151845959171992394