‘Lemon Grove Incident’ Remembered 80 Years Later

*This post is several years old. I stumbled on it and realized how few U.S. Latinos have heard of this, and how that should change. There are young U.S. Latinos and recent immigrants who have no idea of the struggle that preceded them in this country. Lemon Grove desegregated schools 23 years before Brown v Board of Ed. There’ve been epic battles that have brought us this far. VL

By Leonel Sanchez, Lemon Grove Patch

It is considered the nation’s first successful school desegregation court ruling, 23 years before the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Eighty years after it happened, the Lemon Grove Incident is still celebrated and discussed.

It’s been 80 years since Mexican immigrant families in Lemon Grove fought an attempt by an all-white school board to segregate their children and won in a San Diego court.

Nearly forgotten until a 1985 film about the case was shown nationwide, the Lemon Grove Incident, as it came to be known, continues to be remembered.

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