Title: Lulac legal definition of Lulac
Headings: League of United Latin American Citizens
League of United Latin American Citizens
League of United Latin American Citizens
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Content: Despite these tactics, the organization continued to gain strength by disseminating information about citizenship and voting rights, launching Class Action lawsuits to fight for Integration in housing, for education, and for access to improved work conditions. In 1954 LULAC won a landmark case, Hernandez v. State of Texas, 347 U.S. 475, 74 S.Ct. 667, 98 L.Ed. 866 (1954), when the Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition of Mexican Americans from juries was unconstitutional. In the early 2000s LULAC continued to grow. The organization represented Latino men and women who were legal residents of the United States or its territories. ( The term Latino is used to encompass Chicanos, Mexicans, Latin Americans, and others of Hispanic origin.)Through its National Educational Service Centers started in 1973, LULAC created a network of 16 counseling centers that have provided millions of dollars in scholarships as well as information, tutoring and mentoring program for thousands of Latino students around the country. In the twenty-first century, LULAC continued its fight to eliminate discrimination and to research and inform the public regarding such issues as immigration, language (particularly its opposition to English-only initiatives), and literacy, and disparities in health care, political representation, and education. LULAC also continues to stress the need for Hispanic Americans to become citizens and to register to vote. The organization has fostered several major national Hispanic organizations.