Teaching to Change LA: An online journal of IDEA, UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, & Access: Equal Terms in LA: The Struggle for Educational Justice, 1954: Vol.4, No. 1-5, 2003-2004
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The Struggle for Education on Equal Terms in Greater Los Angeles: 1933-2004

The Early Struggle: From Lemon Grove to Mendez To Brown to Crawford 1930-63

Alvarez Jr. R. (1986) “The Lemon Grove Incident: The Nation’s First Successful Desegregation Court Case” The Journal Of San Diego History Vol. 32, No. 2 http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86spring/lemongrove.htm.

Gonzalez G. (1999) “Segregation and The Education of Mexican Children, 1900-1940” The Elusive Quest For Equality pp. 53-76.

Lozano, I. (March 22, 1946) “Termina la segregación” La Opinión, pp. 1, 8.

Cooke, W. H. (1948) “The Segregation of Mexican-American School Children in Southern California,” School and Society, Vol. 67, pp. 417-421.

Wollenberg, C. “All Deliberate Speed Segregation and Exclusion in California Schools, 1855-1975” University Of California Press pp. 108-135.

Hartmann, E. (May 18, 1954) “Supreme Court Outlaws Segregation in Schools.” The Los Angeles Times, Part I, pp. 1, 6.

Associated Press. (May 19, 1954) “Eisenhower Spurs Segregation Ban.” The Los Angeles Times, Part I, pp. 1, 8.

The Emergence of Social Protest, 1964-73

Caughey, J. and LaRee, C. To Kill A Child’s Spirit The Tragedy Of School Segregation In Los Angeles Ithica: 1973, pp.1-15.

Smith, M. (1983) "How Crawford Began" Integrated Education Vol. XX, Nos. 1-2 pp. 7-10.

Morin, R. (May 17, 1964) “School Desegregation: A look at Past 10 Years.” The Los Angeles Times, Sec. F, pp. 6-8.

Salazar, R. (May 17, 1964) “Dual Life Held Danger for Mexican-Americans.” The Los Angeles Times, Sec. C, pp. 4.

Riles, W. “Racial and Ethnic Survey Of California Public Schools” (1966) Distribution of Pupils Fall, Office of Compensatory Education and Bureau of Intergroup Relations pp. 6-14.

Kenneth M. and Clark C. (1967) “An Analysis of Comparative Data From Schools In Predominantly Negro, Mexican-American, And Privileged Sections of Los Angeles” A Final Research Project sponsored by compensatory education commission pp. 11-15, 25, 27.

Webb, E. (1966) “Negroes and Mexican Americans in South and East Los Angeles Changes between 1960 and 1965.” State of California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Fair Employment Practices San Francisco, CA pp. 5-7, 9-13, 23-25, 34-35, 40.

Caughey, J. (1967) “Segregation Blights Our Schools” Quail Books, Los Angeles pp. 5-20.

Caughey, J. (1971) “The Shame Of Los Angeles: Segregated Schools, 1970-1971” Quail Books, Los Angeles pp.7-32. (pp. 530-545)

Plank, F., Moran, R., and Rodriuez, C. (1968) “Police Invade Roosevelt: Students Beaten, 150 Arrested,” La Raza, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 37-45.

McCurdy, J. (March 9, 1968) “1,000 Walk Out in School Boycott.” The Los Angeles Times, pp. 1, 3.

McCurdy, J. (March 12, 1968) “School Board Yields on Some Student Points.” Los Angeles Times, pp. 1, 3.

Garfield High School Strike Committee (March 7, 1968 ) “Garfield High School Student Demands.” (Leaflet distributed at the Garfield High School Walkout) Vol. 4, No. 1 pp.180-181.

Lozano, I. (March 7, 1968) “Disturbios en cuatro escuelas de L.A.: Abandonan las aulas cientos de colegiales.” La Opinión, pp. 1, 3.

Martinez, J. (1984) “Chicano Students at Roosevelt High School Demand More of a Challenge: The Roosevelt High School Blowouts.” (Student paper).

The Rise and Fall of Integration, 1974-83

Mortl, P. (May 17, 1974) “A Plan to End ‘Racial Steering”—From One Who Know How It Works.” The Los Angeles Times, Part I, pp. 1.

Del Olmo, F. (March 26, 1978) “No Regrets, Chicano Students Who Walked out say ’68 Protest Brought Better Education, Most Believe.” The Los Angeles Times.

Haven, F. (May 17, 1974) “Going On Together.” The Los Angeles Times, Part II, p 6.

Carrillo, J. (1978) “The Process of School Desegregation: The Case of the Los Angeles Unified School District” UCLA pp.14, 128-135, 185-186, 190, 261-262, 266-267.

“Racial And Ethnic Distribution Of Students And Staff In California Public Schools” (1977) California State Department of Education.

Perez, R., Amado MP., and Ramirez, A. (1979) “Expectations Toward School Busing In Mexican American Barrio Youth” Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center.

Trombley, W. (May 17, 1979) “Half of Schools Not Integrated, ACLU Charges.” The Los Angeles Times, Part II, pp. 1, 5.

Doyle, D. (1983) "Way Out West in Dixie: The Los Angeles Desegregation of Schools" Integrated Education Vol. XX, Nos. 1-2 pp. 2-6.

"Chronicle On Desegregation in Los Angeles: As Reported In Past issues of Integrateducation" Integrated Education Vol. XX, Nos. 1-2 pp. 26-31.

The New Majority in Post-Desegregation LA, 1984-1993

Orfield, G. (1983) “Lessons Of The Los Angeles Desegregation Case” Education and Urban Society Vol. 16 No. 1 pp. 338-353.

Savage, D. (May 17, 1984) “Integration: The Debate Rages On.” The Los Angeles Times, Part I, pp. 1, 18.

Woo, E. (March 7, 1988) “Leaders of Latino School Protest See Little Change.” The Los Angeles Times, Part II, pp. 1-2.

Soja, E. and Scott, A. (1998) “Introduction to Los Angeles: City and Region,” in The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century University of California Press, pp. 1-21.

Charles, C.Z. (2001) “Residential Segregation in Los Angeles” in Bobo, L., Oliver, M., Johnson, J., and Valenzuela, A. eds Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 167-218.

Bloods and Crips, (1992) “Bloods/Crips Proposal for LA’s Face-Lift,” in H. Madhubuti ed. Why L.A. Happened: Implications of the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion Chicago, Third World Press, 1993, pp. 274-282.

Mendez and Brown, and the Continuing Struggle a Half Century Later

Frankenberg, E. Lee, C. Orfield, G. (2003) “A Multiracial Society with Segregated Schools: Are We Losing the Dream?” The Civil Rights Project Harvard University.

Noguera, P. and Akom, A. (2000) “Disparities Demystified,” The Nation June 5, 2000, pp. 29-31.

Allen, W., Bonous-Hammer, M., Teranishi, R. (2002) Stony the Road We Trod … the Black Struggle for Higher Education in California pp. 10-20. Report Prepared for the James Irvine and Andrew Mellon Foundations.

Fine, M. (2002) Expert Declaration of Michelle Fine in Williams v. California. http://www.mofo.com/decentschools/expert_reports/fine_report.pdf

Gewertz, C. (2003) “Racial Gaps Found to Persist in Public’s Opinion of Schools,” Education Week May 21, 2003 Vol. 22, No. 37, p. 9 http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=37race,h22ckeywords=brown.

Jimenez, C. (Mar 19, 1998) "Perspectives on Education; Year-Round Means Watered Down; Overcrowded L.A. high schools shortchange their mostly minority students, a situation of ‘separate and unequal,” The Los Angeles Times p. 9.

Editorial. (May 17, 1994) “May 17—Special Day in History: Court’s prohibition of school segregation changed America’s face forever.” The Los Angeles Times, Sec. B, pp. 6.

Woodson-Bryant, S. (May 17, 1994) “Perspective on Desegregation: Remembering a Kansas Childhood.” The Los Angeles Times, Sec. B, pp. 7.

Lopez, A. (2002) “Race and Educational Attainment in California: Census 2000 Profiles” Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity No. 11, pp. 1-19.

Crenshaw, K. (2001) “Ahead to the Past: The Politics of Plessy” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire Vol.3, No.2 p.8.

De la Torre-Jimenez, L. (1997) “La Justicia llego 50 anos despues para estudiantes discriminados: Nueva escuela llevara nombre de familia latina que lucho contra la segregacion racial en la educacion” La Opinión Vol. 72; No. 80 p. 1B.

Day, O. (1999) “A Colorful Quilt,” The Orange County Register November 7, 1999.

Ettinger, D. (2003) “The Quest to Desegregate Los Angeles Schools,” Los Angeles Lawyer Vol 26 No 1, pp. 55-67