The Lemon Grove Incident

A story of a tight-knit community winning one of the first school desegregation cases in the United States over 90 years ago. The son of the lead plaintiff in the case shares his father’s pivotal role and how this little-known moment in history is now being preserved in a mural.
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Thank you for sharing our history 🙏

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Back then people would talk to each other even if they were strangers. Now nobody wants to have any type of social interaction unless they have to. Their efforts to keep up apart have been successful. Unfortunately. So thank you for sharing this to remind us what a united community looks like.

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Great progress was made during this time but there are still many tendencies of that old system at play today, while the motive of the case was to expand equal opportunity in education for all students, our school districts to work separately and cement separate and unequal educational experiences. Higher district rated schools are located in higher costs cities usually restricted or too expensive for ethnic families with more benefits and support while our lower income communities receive a lower rated district which reflects a lower or substandard educational experience. A phrase I like to use is what you put in is what you get out, since we talk about increasing equal opportunity we must realize it starts by ensuring this equal opportunity from the beginning. California is know to be the worst state for education and is described as a dropout factory, failing more students than any other state. But to contribute to this is the issue that not every student or community receives the same education and that really has a lot to do with the inequality we see today. What needs to be done is a standardization of education so that the rural community students receive the same quality and supportive education than those in affluent communities, and more efforts to support diversity and equality be made so there isn’t this gap between students and communities artificially created by educational segregation.

[@alexanderjackson3060]

Familia. That is my Nino Roberto Alvarez speaking and my Great Grandfather Roberto Alvarez Sr was the lead Plantiff….. chicano pride, mexican pride, brown and black pride

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Brown vs the Board of Education! 👍🏻

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Orale Tio!