In 1947, the Ninth Circuit Court decided that separation "within one of the great races, without a specific state law requiring the separation, was not permitted" in California. So, the segregation of Mexican American children in California became illegal based on their Mexican descent. On June 15, 1948, with the help of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and Mexican American attorney Gustavo C. Garcia, Minerva Delgado and twenty other Mexican American parents invoked California’s ruling as precedent and filed suit against the Bastrop Independent School District because Mexican children there were being segregated from other white students without a state law. They also accused the district of depriving Mexican American children of equal facilities, services, and educational instruction. Judge Ben H. Rice of the United States District Court, Western District of Texas, agreed with Delgado and the others and ordered the suspension of this segregation by September 1949. Separate classes on the same campus were still allowed for “language-deficient” or non-English-speaking students. In 1957, with the decision in Hernandez v Driscoll Consolidated Independent School District, segregated schools in the Texas public school system would officially end. [190 words]