Howdy! I've touched on the matter of Asian and Hispanic American race relations before in this post The long and short of it is that Hispanic Americans were subject to segregation, extra-legal violence and racism just as much as other minority groups in the United States. There were around six hundred confirmed lynchings of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from 1848 to 1928, with there more than likely being several dozen more unreported. Two court cases intensely relevant to the Hispanic experience are Westminster School District of Orange County et al. v. Mendez et al which successfully argued that segregation of Mexican and Mexican descent students was unconstitutional, this would be the first successful, legal, attack on school segregation in the US.

The second case, Hernandez v. Texas in 1954 in which Pete Hernandez was charged with murder and his lawyer successfully argued that because Latino Americans were not allowed to serve on Juries, the case should be thrown out. The Supreme Court agreed, and ruled that Hernandez had the constitutional right to be tried by a jury of his peers. This decision decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.