Events
Viewing of the Lemon Grove Incident
with Director Paul Espinosa
The Library invites you to a special viewing of the documentary, The Lemon Grove Incident with guest speaker Paul Espinosa, the documentary’s director. From the films introduction: "The struggle to end school segregation is usually linked to the 1954 Supreme Court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education. However, many of the earliest desegregation cases occurred in the American Southwest and they involved the children of Mexican immigrants. This is the true story of one of those cases." The documentary tells the story of the Lemon Grove School Board’s failed attempt to segregate Mexican American school children in San Diego County in the 1930s using a mixture of dramatizations, archival photographs and interviews with the former students involved. It progresses from the school board's meetings of July, 1930, to the board's attempts to create a second school in the Mexican community, to the reaction of that community and the formation of the Neighborhood Association of Lemon Grove, to the court case which thwarted the segregation attempt.
When: Tuesday, May 11, 2005 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Seuss Room, Geisel Library Building
Co-sponsered by Friends of the UCSD Libraries
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Where have we been? Where are we now?
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A look at school segregation in San Diego and Orange counties.
Distinguished Speaker Mary T. Hernandez, Esquire
May 14, 2004, 12pm-2pm (reception to follow lecture)
Price Center Gallery B
Ms. Hernandez is currently working at the California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE) as a Program Coordinator, PRJOECT INSPIRE, a Parent Information Resource Center funded by the U.S. Department of Education aimed at providing resources. Leadership training and information about No Child Left Behind, the California Accountability System and other important education rights topics for parents.
Sponsored by Warren College
Questions please contact Warren College Student Affairs at (858)534-4731 or wardean@ucsd.edu.
"The Haunting of Jim Crow"
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that declared racially segregated schools unconstitutional, the UCSD Thurgood Marshall College will present a new play by Allan Havis, of the UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance.
THE HAUNTING OF JIM CROW, a new thirty minute play that entwines two fascinating strands of American history: The landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and an intimate expose of the phenomenal southern icon - Senator Strom Thurmond. Capturing the tumultuous mood and the paradoxical politics of America during the Eisenhower years, THE HAUNTING OF JIM CROW also leaps forcefully into our own time to take up the public and private life of Strom Thurmond and the dramatic revelations of his mixed race daughter Essie Mae Washington-Williams.
Monday May 17 7 pm at Wagner Dance Building, Studio III
Wednesday, May 19 8 pm at Wagner Dance Building, Studio III
For more information, visit their website.