Useful Links
ACR-146 Civil rights: Roberto Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District.(2015-2016)
This measure would commemorate March 30, 2016, as the 85th anniversary of the historic ruling in the case of Roberto Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, which invalidated that district’s attempt to restrict its pupils of Mexican heritage to an inferior, segregated educational experience.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160ACR146
The Lemon Grove Incident documentary utilizes a unique combination of dramatized scenes, documentary interviews, and historical footage to document the response of the Mexican American community in Lemon Grove, California to the 1930 school board attempt to create a segregated school for the Mexican American children of the district.
Bilingual picture book: Todos Iguales/All Equal: Un corrido de Lemon Grove/A Ballad of Lemon Grove Written and illustrated by Christy Hale. Lee and Low Books.
Read about the organizing and the court case in the article below, followed by a documentary film.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lemon-grove-incident/
The Lemon Grove Incident
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1986/april/lemongrove/
Lemon Grove Historical Society
https://www.lghistorical.org/historic-lemon-grove/the-lemon-grove-incident/
The Unheralded History of the lemon grove desegregation case
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ793848