THE LEMON GROVE INCIDENT

The Lemon Grove Incident (Roberto Alvarez and the Lemon Grove School District Committee), commonly known as the Lemon Grove Incident, was the first successful school in America that abolished apartheid. The incident occurred in Lemon Grove, California in 1930 and 1931, and the local board of education tried to establish an independent school for children in Mexico. On March 30, 1931, the San Diego County High Court ruled that the local board of education tried to separate 75 elementary school students from Mexicans and Mexican Americans. Although it tends to be overlooked in the history of abolition of apartheid school, the lawsuit of lemon forest is the first victory of racial discrimination practice, and the effective use of US legal system to protect children's rights Mexico It is increasingly seen as a testimony to immigrant guardians. .

Then in 1931, the separation problem was challenged by the San Diego Lemon Grove Incident. In this case, the parents of Mexican children, who were used as a precedent for Brown and Board of Education affairs, asked their children to receive the same education as local ranchers' children. The judge endorsed Mexican children and decided that the abolition of apartheid by the school was illegal. After all, another incident that led Brown to the Board of Education was situations of Gains and Missouri in 1938. In this case, a black legal student, Gaines, would like to go to a law school in Missouri State. Because there are no independent facilities, Missouri State can choose to pay Gains to participate in another law school in a state with independent facilities. However, Gaines wants to go to Missouri and go to school. The Supreme Court ruled that the State of Missouri allowed Gaines to participate in the facility or established an independent facility for them.