Readers in San Diego, mark your calendars! - Saturday, March
19th: Roberto Alvarez, Ph.D., UCSD, Ethnic Studies, and Director
of the Center for Global California Studies, will discuss the
nation’s first successful school desegregation court case of
1930, which occurred in San Diego County’s own Lemon Grove. The
lecture will provide an overview of the court case in the
context of race desegregation in the U.S. prior to 1954 Brown
vs. the Board. The presentation emphasizes the role of the
Mexican-American and immigrant populations in U.S. school
desegregation and features a docu-drama. Read event coverage on
La Prensa San Diego. - Saturday, March 26th: The Lemon Grove
Oral History Project Team will present a preview screening of a
short documentary of the Lemon Grove community in the 1930s, and
feature the former students of the 1930s impacted by the court
case. Lemon Grove community residents will be present during
this follow-up presentation to Dr. Alvarez’s lecture. For
details on these events and other upco