American Experience

Conference on Hernandez v. Texas at Fifty. Sponsored by University of Houston Law Center and Arte Publico Press
http://www.law.uh.edu/Hernandez50/
Provides a wealth of articles and primary material about the case.

Mungia, Ruben (ed). A Cotton Picker Finds Justice: The Saga of the Hernandez Case (1954)
http://www.law.uh.edu/Hernandez50/saga.pdf
A pamphlet spearheaded by Gus García that includes Garcia’s first hand account of the case.

A Quiet Victory for Civil Rights
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E7DA163FF936A25756C0A9629C8B63
Read the New York Times’ editorial on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Hernandez v. Texas, May 15, 2004.

Oyez U.S. Supreme Court Media
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1953/1953_406/
Read the Supreme Court’s summary of Hernandez v. Texas online.

Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tshaonline.org/
Read about Carlos Cadena, Gus García, and other heroes of Hernandez v. Texas.

The Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark, The University of Texas at Austin
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/clark/hernandez.html
Includes a bench memo from Justice Clark about the Hernandez case; Clark was the only member of the Supreme Court from Texas.