Published 3 days ago • loading... • Updated 3 days ago
Lemon Grove marks 100 years since landmark desegregation case
Judge Claud L. Chambers ordered the district to readmit more than 70 Mexican American children and pay court fees after finding the segregation unlawful.
By Saida PagánIn 1930, Lemon Grove, California, in San Diego County, was a small, but thriving agricultural town with a growing Mexican American population. Many of the Latino families there sent their children to the Lemon Grove School with the hope that education would mean a brighter future.