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Parents of both African American and Mexican American students challenged racialized school segregation in coordination with civil rights organizaitons like the NAACP, ACLU, LULAC. Both groups found it capable to challenge discriminatory policies through appeals in courts, with varying success, at times challenging policies, more commonly however, they made small successes.[1] For instance, one tactic employed by the NAACP was to initially challenge graduate and professional school segregation because it was thought this would cause the least backlash and opposition by whites.[2]
There do of course exist differences in the experiences of racial segregation for different groups within the United States. For instance, while African Americans faced de jure segregation in civil society, Mexican Americans who lived in southwestern states often dealt with extralegal segregation, laws did not exist that barred their access to schools or other public facilities.[3] Additionally, the proponents of Mexican American segregation were often those officials who worked at the state and local school level; consider, for instance that they often defended the creation and sustaining of segregated "Mexican schools".[4] The obstacles for Mexican Americans was not greater however, at times the NAACP had to challenge segregation policies in institutions where exclusion was targeted only at African American students despite an already established Mexican American presence.[5]
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- ^ Powers, Jeanne M. (2014-11-01). "On Separate Paths: The Mexican American and African American Legal Campaigns against School Segregation". American Journal of Education. 121 (1): 29–55. doi:10.1086/678124. ISSN 0195-6744.
- ^ Kluger, Richard (2004). Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage. ISBN 1400030617.
- ^ Powers, Jeanne M.; Patton, Lirio (2008-03-01). "Between Mendez and Brown: Gonzales v. Sheely (1951) and the Legal Campaign Against Segregation". Law & Social Inquiry. 33 (1): 127–171. doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2008.00096.x. ISSN 1747-4469.
- ^ Donato, Rubén; Hanson, Jarrod (2012-06-15). "Legally White, Socially "Mexican": The Politics of De Jure and De Facto School Segregation in the American Southwest". Harvard Educational Review. 82 (2): 202–225. doi:10.17763/haer.82.2.a562315u72355106.
- ^ Foley, Neil (2010). Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674050235.