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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.
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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. Show Less
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English
Physical description
40 p.; 11.25 inches
ISBN
978-1-68437-195-2 / 9781684371952