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[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] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Milestones Of The Civil Rights Movement===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eyesontheprize-milestones-civil-rights-movement/ by PBS Shows] | |||
After African Americans boycotted the Montgomery, Alabama bus system for over a year, the local bus company had agreed to desegregate its buses because it had lost so much revenue. The city and state, however, insisted that bus drivers continue to enforce Jim Crow laws. A Federal District Court then ruled that segregation on the buses was illegal. The Supreme Court affirmed that decision, Browder v. Gayle, in November 1956, handing NAACP lawyers a major victory. | |||
