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  2. Anti-Mexican sentiment - Wikipedia

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    Anti-Mexican sentiment is prejudice, fear, discrimination, xenophobia, racism, or hatred towards Mexico, its people, and their culture. It is most commonly seen in the United States. Its origins in the United States date back to the Mexican and American Wars of Independence and the struggle over the disputed Southwestern territories.

  3. Saving a lasting reminder of Mexican American school segregation

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    The first legal victory against U.S. segregation was in San Diego County in 1930, when Mexican American parents successfully sued the Lemon Grove district to integrate. But years passed before the ...

  4. Mendez v. Westminster - Wikipedia

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    Mexican Americans, who were historically considered to be white, were unaffected by legal segregation and normally attended segregated white schools. The Mendez family, who previously went to white schools without problems, suddenly found their children forced into separate "Schools for Mexicans" when they came to Westminster, even though that ...

  5. Lopez v. Seccombe - Wikipedia

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    Lopez v. Seccombe. 71 F. Supp. 769. 1, US District Court for the Southern District of California, 1944, was a 1944 court case within the city and county of San Bernardino about whether Mexican Americans were able to use the city's public pool at any time despite the cities restricted limits.

  6. Delgado v. Bastrop ISD - Wikipedia

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    During this time period, the United States segregated Mexican-Americans from Whites in laws referred to as "Jaime Crow". [5] However, within the Texas public school systems, including Bastrop Independent School District, policies regarding the separation of students of a Spanish origin was largely implemented by the various districts. [ 3 ]

  7. A high school student's paper on the Mexican repatriation ...

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    People of Mexican descent, including U.S.-born citizens, were put on trains and buses and deported to Mexico during the Great Depression. In Los Angeles, up to 75,000 were deported by train in one ...

  8. Lemon Grove Incident - Wikipedia

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    The segregation of Mexican and Mexican American children was common throughout the Southwest in the early-to-mid 1900s. [2] [3] [4] While the California Education Code did not explicitly allow for the segregation of children of Mexican descent, approximately 80% of California school districts with substantial Mexican and Mexican American populations had separate classrooms or elementary ...

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