The mural depicts the first successful school desegregation case in the U.S. — 23 years before Brown vs. Board of Education.
“We're talking the early 30s,” Chacon said. “A period of intense anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican racism.”
The school board may not have bargained for just how united the Mexican community would be in their fight back. Alongside his father in the mural are painted another classmate — who later became his mother — and his uncle and grandparents.Roberto Alvarez Jr. stands in front of the mural of the Lemon Grove Incident on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.
He planned to do his dissertation in Panama, but the 1970s academic literature on immigrants was disturbing him. It painted them as all the same.
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