The U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing held in San Antonio in 1968, and the 1997 publication “The New Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas” led by Steve H. Murdock are entangled. The Hearing presented stark evidence of discriminatory human and policy injustice against Mexican Americans, and Murdock’s team demonstrate the ongoing consequences and required policy attention to change the generational impacts of inequalities that persist. His updated reports of 2003 and 2014; reinforce the absence of equitable human capital investment policies for Latino socio-economic improvements and the Texas economy.