Participants will learn about the inner workings of the judicial system in relation to Mexican Americans and how Mexican Americans are treated in some educational settings.

The students won the case, but for almost 60 years the case was never spoken about in the farming community where they lived despite its significance. “Stolen Education” portrays the courage of these young people, testifying in an era when fear and intimidation were used to maintain racial hierarchy and control. Driscoll Consolidated Independent School District), one of the first post-Brown desegregation court cases to be litigated. She was one of eight young students who testified in a federal court case in 1956 to end the discriminatory practice (Hernandez et al. The Intercultural Diversity Center will continue its Fall 2021 Social Justice Movie Series with a showing of “Stolen Education: The Legacy of Hispanic Racism in Schools.” As a 9-year-old second grader, Lupe had been forced to remain in the first grade for three years, not because of her academic performance but solely because she was Mexican American.

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