Segregation In The Lemon Grove School

When one thinks of racism and segregation, lynching or hate crimes in general, we only think within the white and black margins, to many, the African American sufferings come to mind. Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King are names we quickly remember, we don’t recall the Mexican American struggle, Mexican activists like Emma Tenayuca, or Dolores Huerta, or the nation’s first successful desegregation court case, Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District. Omitted from textbooks, historical data and documents, cases of Mexican and Mexican American lynchings and extralegal violence occurrences are lost and forgotten by all except the ones who were there to experience it first hand and those who have been fortunate enough …show more content…
According to the judge, separation of students to offer special devotion, and instructions was allowed, and encouraged, but the separation of all of the students with Hispanic decent was against the law of California, especially since a lot of these students were legally “white”. The illegal segregation of these students was unjust, especially when many of these students were legally entitled to a proper education under the U.S. California law, so the students were quickly reinstated into the Lemon Grove School of Grammar. Although this was a horrible event with a satisfactory ending, I believe it was necessary, and shows the great power of unionizing, which is what the parents of the Lemon Grove students had to do in order to ensure that their children were going to receive the quality education they deserved. Even though this court case was a great example of the power and influence a community could have if they got together and fought for what was just, in the end the Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District ruling had no precedent affects in other cases. The Lemon Grove Incident court case was declared as a local event, and had no precedent court case affect the rulings of future segregation cases, if it were up to me, I would definitely declare it the precedent, and allow it to be used …show more content…
the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District greatly affected us. Although de facto segregation still separates us by race, there are no de jure segregations in school or neighborhoods. De facto segregation places us in certain cities, in certain neighborhoods, which place us in specific school districts, which end up putting certain races in these schools, giving certain racial populations more seats in school. Without school segregation court cases, we would definitely be living in fear and ignorance, minorities would still be segregated into different parts of schools, and we would all be missing out on learning about other racial experiences throughout history, leaving gaps in our education that could only be filled with integration and willingness to accept more than one side to a