The 1954 court case Brown versus Board of Education declared unconstitutional any state laws that allowed for racial segregation in public schools.
But school segregation didn’t cease following the landmark decision. Many school districts still found loopholes to these practices in classrooms, particularly in the case of Mexican American students.
The 1970 case Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD arose from a group of around two dozen parents whose children attended neglected, formerly all-Black schools that severely lacked the resources of their white counterparts…