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Jul. 22, 2010
A Family's Fight for Equal Education
Elaine Elinson reviews the story of the Mendez family, who led the fight that changed the course of history for American students.
In 1855, the California superintendent of public instruction stated, "Whilst I foster by all proper means the education of the colored races, I should deem it a death to our system to permit the mixture of races in the same school." By 1863, the Legislature had excluded children of color from white schools.
Chinese American parents in San Francisco, African Americans in Visalia, and Native Americans in Inyo County...
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