LA/El Modena
What was the name of the community in Southern California who relied heavily on Mexican cheap labor due to the _______ industry?
Citrus society
what were the courses that were offered at Roosevelt
academic studies like biology and geometry
What was the case AND San Francisco court called after the school districts appealed their case?
Mendez vs. Westminster + The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
The article says segregation mainly targeted this group of students.
Mexican-American Children
What kind of segregation divides groups and races by law and ended with the Mendez case?
de jure segregation
What parts of the town of El Modena did "Silent Segregation" effect
Affected housing, public spaces, and the classroom
What were some of the courses that were offered at lincoln?
Vocational studies, cultural classes, sewing, cooking, housework
Who won the Mendez v. Westminster federal court case in 1947?
The Mendez family (Mexican American Families)
These classroom resources were often old and used and given from another owner.
Hand-me-down School materials
What kind of segregation, not enforced by law, continued after the Mendez case?
de facto segregation
What was the name of the group organized by Chicanos in El Modena called?
Latin American League of El Modena
How far (or close) were the two schools?
120 yards
Did this case end all school segregation in America?
Nooo
Schools assumed this fact about Mexican American students in order to separate kids.
Not knowing English
What did anglo parents do with their kids that defunded the La Modena school district?
transfer their kids to an predominantly anglo school district
True or False: Citizens of El Modena argued that it was okay to keep Mexicans and Anglos seperate as long as they had equal facilities
True
What was the school board mostly composed of for both the Roosevelt and Lincoln schools.
Anglo ranchers
Even after the results of the Mendez v. Westminster court case, why did segregation continue?
People found other ways to keep the schools apart, like changing school district lines and putting kids in different classes based on their last name
Instead of College-prep classes, many students were moved into this type of program
Americanization training
what happened in school board elections for school board administration that ended Chicano power?
administration filled with Anglo in power
The Mexican American community at El Modena became the center of struggle and had risen to the occasion, how? (hint: relates to the lawsuit)
By challenging status quo
What did the school board alter so Mexican children could harvest more crops throughout the year?
School Calendar
What court case did Mendez v. Westminster influence?
Brown V. Board of Education
The article showed segregation wasn't only just in schools. It also appeared in these public places.
The term for grouping schools into single districts, also what was used to separate El Modena from predominantly Anglo schools.
unification