Film Analysis: The Lemon Grove Incident

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The incident that took place in Lemon Grove, California 1930 was when Alvarez went against the board of the Lemon Grove school. Students with family or Mexican descent were being placed in a separate school. Many families were seriously affected by this incident but the results were worth the fight against the board of education.
The school board was claiming different things so that it would make them look like if the school board was making the correct decisions, but that’s wrong which made the parents to make a hard decision not sending their kids to school. As Frank Christopher stated in the film The Lemon Grove Incident “ Our children do go to school but aren’t being allowed inside”. The problem was that the school board during this time

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