League of United Latin American Citizens

This article, entititled "League of United Latin American Citizens," was another article on an organization based around supporting Hispanic Americans. This organization has a goal of bringing about positive social and economic changes for Hispanic Americans. What I like about this organization is it's uniqueness. The LULAC started out as three seperate organizatons, that merged together in 1929. These groups remind me of SNCC because they were started by Mexican Americans as a means of defense against prejudicial attitudes and discrimination acts, much like the SNCC was formed for African Americans so they could defend themselves. This unifaction of three smaller organizations created one strong group that works hard to "reverse widespread unequal treatment of Mexican Americans." This group also reminds me of cases such as Brown vs. board of Education because of their involvement in the court system. In 1945, a LULAC council in California sued to integrate the school system in Orange County, and won. Another landmark case for them was in Texas in 1954 when they protested that not a single Mexican American in that state had ever been called to jury duty. This was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. All of these things are great, but I think that the best thing this organization does is to raise money for the LULAC National Scholarship Fund, which has helped send almost 10% of the Hispanic American students in the United States go to college.