Without Separation: Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez

by Larry Dane Brimner

Other authorsMaya Gonzalez (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2021

Status

Coming Soon

Call number

379.2

Publication

Calkins Creek (2021), 40 pages

Description

The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.

User reviews

LibraryThing member LibrarianRyan
What an interesting read. Most students know or learn about segregated schools in the South. Ruby Bridges is a heroic name. But this reader had never heard about schools trying to segregate in California, in order to keep the mexican school children away from the white ones. The reason the school
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board gave was a language barrier, which a lawsuit named for Roberto Alverez proved was intentional racism. This was a wonderful story and the illustrations are fitting and feel like California in the 1930s.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

40 p.; 11.25 inches

ISBN

978-1-68437-195-2 / 9781684371952
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