Without Separation, Larry Dane Brimner
Without Separation, Larry Dane Brimner
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Without Separation
Prejudice, Segregations, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez

Author: Larry Dane Brimner

Narrator: Christopher Salazar

Unabridged: 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/05/2022


Synopsis

Roberto Alvarez’s world changed the day he could no longer attend Lemon Grove Grammar School in the small, rural community where he lived near San Diego, California. He and the other Mexican American students were told they had to go
to a new, separate school on Olive Street. A school just for them. A school where they would not hold back the other students.

But Roberto and the Mexican American students and their families believed the new school’s real purpose was to segregate, to separate. They didn’t think that was right, or just, or legal. Would they win their fight to continue attending the
five-room school Roberto and the others loved, or would the court order them to attend the new school?

Acclaimed nonfiction author Larry Dane Brimner follows Roberto and the other Mexican American families on their journey in 1931 as they battle against separation and prejudice in one of America’s landmark segregation cases.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melinda on June 09, 2022

Roberto Alvarez was suddenly told one day that he and other Mexican American students were no longer welcomed to their school anymore. Roberto along with other families challenged this decision and went to court. An interesting story of segregation and how a community came together.......more

Goodreads review by Edward on July 16, 2022

A great introduction to a little-known school desgregation case. In 1931 when the Lemon Grove School District’s board of trustees decided to expel every one of the 75 students who were of Mexican American descent in order to establish an all-white student body, the Lemon Grove Neighbor’s Committee—C......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on November 20, 2021

The case of Roberto Alvarez set the scene for cases like Brown v. Board of Education. Roberto Alvarez was a young man of immigrant parents who wanted nothing more than for children with brown skin to go to school in the new school house with the peers they had always known. A fascinating read, suita......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 25, 2021

This is an important story of racism and segregation in California, when the 1931 court case of Roberto Alvarez took place. Beautifully illustrations and layout. Early digital copy received from Edelweiss.......more

Goodreads review by charlene.librarian on December 27, 2021

This is an important treatment of the Roberto Alvarez case in 1931 that became one of the precedents for the Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The author's note and list of sources provide even more historical understanding.......more