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[https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-convict-leasing/ by EJI 11/1/13] | [https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-convict-leasing/ by EJI 11/1/13] | ||
After the Civil War, slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. While states profited, prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions. Thousands of Black people were forced into what authors have termed “slavery by another name” until the 1930s. | After the Civil War, slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. While states profited, prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions. Thousands of Black people were forced into what authors have termed “slavery by another name” until the 1930s. | ||
=====In the 1930s, Mexican families helped dismantle segregation in the California school system. Education advocates now want to create greater awareness of that effort.===== | |||
[https://unidosus.org/progress-report/in-the-1930s-mexican-families-helped-dismantle-segregation-in-the-california-school-system-education-advocates-now-want-to-create-greater-awareness-of-that-effort/ by Progress Report 9/10/24] | |||
Over time, some cases have come to be more widely referenced than others, but all have contributed to greater civil rights protections in schools. Consider this lesser-known case that took place on Olive Street in San Diego County between 1930 and 1931, when a group of parents of Mexican heritage successfully sued the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District for trying to build and place their children in a separate “Americanization” school. | |||
