The Lemon Grove Incident Analysis

The Lemon Grove Incident (Christopher, 1985), is a movie that depicts the first successful legal challenge to school segregation in the United States. The incident took place in the early 1930’s in California. The town’s population was largely made up of Mexican immigrants who worked in the citrus groves. The school officials in the town felt that the Mexican children were hindering the learning of the Anglo students. Eventually, the school board tried to force the Mexican students to attend a separate school that was for Mexican students only. I cannot believe that I had no prior knowledge of this incident in American history. I already know that African-Americans and Native Americans are not the only groups of people who have had to fight