Lemon Grove marks 100 years since landmark desegregation case
A century after families challenged segregation, Lemon Grove remembers the 1931 court order that returned Mexican American children to their local school.
By Saida Pagán
In 1930, Lemon Grove, California, in San Diego County, was a small, but thriving agricultural town with a growing Mexican American population. Many of the Latino families there sent their children to the Lemon Grove School with the hope that education would mean a brighter future.