Without separation : prejudice, segregation, and the case of Roberto Alvarez / Larry Dane Brimner ; illustrated by Maya Gonzalez.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781684371952
- 1684371953
- Prejudice, segregation, and the case of Roberto Alvarez
- Alvarez, Roberto, 1919-2003 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature
- Lemon Grove School District (Lemon Grove, Calif.). Board of Trustees -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature
- Mexican American children -- Education -- California -- Lemon Grove -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Segregation in education -- California -- Lemon Grove -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- School integration -- California -- Lemon Grove -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Lemon Grove (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This important yet little-known civil rights story focuses on Roberto Alvarez, a student whose 1931 court battle against racism and school segregation in Lemon Grove, California, is considered the first time an immigrant community used the courts to successfully fight injustice. Amust-read for young activists, or for anyone interested in standing up for what's right.
Roberto Alvarez's world changed the day he could no longer attend Lemon Grove Grammar School in the small, rural community where he lived near San Diego, California. He and the other Mexican American students were told they had to go to a new, separate school-one where they would not hold back the other students. But Roberto and the other students and their families believed the new school's real purpose was to segregate, to separate. They didn't think that was right, or just, or legal.
Based on true events, this picture bookby Sibert award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner and Pura Belpre honor award-winning illustrator Maya Gonzalez follows Roberto and the other immigrant families on their journey.
Includes bibliographical references.
The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.