Podcast: Saving segregated ‘Mexican’ schools

Lorenzo Ramirez is proven subsequent to his court docket testimony. He and different households in Orange County sued to desegregate so-called Mexican colleges within the 1947 Mendez, et al. vs. Westminster case.

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Marfa, Texas, is understood internationally for its arts scene. However on the south facet of the town, there’s this old fashioned. It’s a faculty the place lecturers as soon as paddled Latino college students for talking Spanish. Now, a few of those self same college students — grandparents and retirees of their 80s — are working to avoid wasting the long-shuttered segregated Blackwell Faculty and make it a nationwide historic website to show the historical past of segregated colleges for Latinos in america.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Visitors: L.A. Occasions Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Extra studying:

Saving the college the place youngsters had been paddled for talking Spanish

Lorenzo Ramirez, late plaintiff in famed faculty desegregation case, honored by Orange

Mendez vs. segregation: 70 years later, famed case ‘isn’t nearly Mexicans. It’s about everyone coming collectively’