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100

When was the first immigration head tax placed along the US-Mexico border?

When is 1917?

100

Who was selected to represent the children for the Lemon Grove case?

Who is Roberto Alvarez?

100

What did students call the extra building they were supposed to attend?

What is "La Caballeriza"?

100

What did the parents do when their children told them about being refused to be let in?

What is they did not let their children go to the school?

100

Why were Mexicans being targeted by the American public?

What is they were supposedly taking jobs away from citizens?

200

What year did the Lemon Grove case take place?

When is 1931?

200

Which president fueled the anti-Mexican sentiment in the US through reports and administrative decisions?

Who is President Hoover?

200

Where were most of the Mexican's families ' children born?

What is the US?

200

What was the official name of the Lemon Grove case?

What is Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District?

200
Which Spanish news outlet did the parents reach out to for support?
What is La Opinion?
300

When did the anti-Mexican sentiment begin to take place?

When is after the Great Depression?

300

Who refused to let Mexican student in to the Lemon Grove Grammar School?

Who is Principal Jerome T. Green?

300

From what region of Mexico did most of Lemon Grove's Mexican families migrate from?

What is Baja California?

300

Who was the judge that oversaw the case?

Who is Judge Claude Chambers?

300

What is the committee that the parents formed in response to the treatment their children received?

What is the Lemon Grove Neighbors Committee?
400

In what year did law enforcement begin to make public raids to arrest Mexicans?

When is 1932?

400

Who was the Mexican consul that helped arrange legal representation for the case?

Who is Enrique Ferreira?

400

What kind of employment attracted Mexican families to Lemon Grove?

What is agriculture, mining, and railroads?

400

What reason did the school use to justify their treatment of the children?

What is the denied segregation and claimed the Mexican children required special English instruction?

500

In which year did 64 schools in eight California counties have a 90 to 100% Mexican-American population?

When is 1928?

500

Who were the attorneys that represented the Lemon Grove Case?

Who are Fred C. Noon and A.C. Brinkley?

500

Approximately what percentage of Lemon Grove Grammar School students were of Mexican descent?

What is 44%?
500

What was the ruling of the case?

What is the children were allowed to enter the regular school building and attend the same classes as the American children?