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This question requires you to compare a Supreme Court case you studied in class with one you have not studied
in class. A summary of the Supreme Court case you did not study in class is presented below and provides all
of the information you need to know about this case to answer the prompt.

In the 1950s, Pete Hernandez, a Mexican American agricultural worker, was found guilty of murder and
sentenced to life in prison by an all-white jury in Jackson County, Texas. Hernandez’s defense claimed that
people of Mexican ancestry had been discriminated against in Jackson County. They pointed to the fact that no
person of Mexican ancestry had served on a jury in 25 years and that the Jackson County Courthouse itself
practiced segregation in its facilities. The five jury commissioners, who selected the members of the grand jury,
testified under oath that they selected jurors based only on their qualifications and did not consider race or
national origin in their decisions.

In the ensuing case, Hernandez v. Texas (1954), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Hernandez,
deciding that evidence of discrimination against Mexican Americans existed in Jackson County and that the
Constitution prohibits such discrimination.

Based on the information above, respond to the following questions.

A. Identify the constitutional amendment that was used as the basis for the decision in both Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Hernandez v. Texas (1954).
B. Explain how the facts in both Brown v. Board of Education and Hernandez v. Texas led to a similar
decision in both cases.
C. Explain how both Brown v. Board of Education and Hernandez v. Texas played a role in the push for civil rights.


A. Identify a trend in the graphic of cell phone usage to gain information on elections or politics.
B. Describe a similarity or difference in cell phone usage by age or political party affiliation, as illustrated in the information graphic, and draw a conclusion about that similarity or difference.
C. Explain how media companies and social media can influence a person’s political participation.

A) The constitutional amendment that was used as a basis for the decision in both Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Hernandez v. Texas (1954) was the 14th amendment (the equal protection clause).

B) Facts in both Brown v. Board of Education and Hernandez v. Texas led to a similar decision in both cases are as follows: Brown v Board was about the segregation regarding the school Ruby Bridges was attending which ultimately led the way to ersticatijg discrimination in schools. They are similar because in the Board of Education case the segregation from the school was in violation of the 14th amendment, while the hernadez case the discrimination the hispanic endured was also in direct violation of the ewual protectuon clause.

C) Both Brown v. Board of Education and Hernandez v. Texas played a role in the push for civil rights as they both helped show the unconstitutionalism that was being shown to colored people. In the Brown case, eventually overturned the separate but equal rule, while the conviction of the defendant in the Hernadez case exposed the unfairness that existed within the justice system as well, as the jury had no hispanic Amerixans involved.

A) A trend that exists in the graphic of cell phone usage to gain information on elections or politics is that some 40 percent of the voters between the ages of 30 thru 49 used their phones to keep up with politics in 2010. A major trend that is evident throughout the graph is that the 2014 year had a significantly higher voting amount compared to 4 years earlier; which is more than likely due to thTo phones being more relied on as of recent.

.B) One similarity that was noticed in the graph is that the 65+ age group that kept up with news on their smartphone was nearly the same amount as all Republicans in the country did regarding their devices. Considering that a significant percentage of the voters are 65+, almost 50 percent of that age voted republican during the last 4 elections, and that there was a democrat in office during these times, its possible to assume that they may have spent some time away from the political media. The factoring of older age, lesser use of technology then other generations, and democrats being in the news alot more around this time, had all had fsctors on the graph results.

C) Media companies and social media can influence a person’s political participation in a number of ways, the medias opinion on voting, the general consensus on specific politics, and the fact that people's opinions having the ability to change because of someone else's actions or words.