Title: The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America - HISTORY
Headings: The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America
The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America
School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices Latinos have faced.
Mexican American Immigration, and Discrimination, Begins
Mob Violence Terrorized Latinos
Forced Deportations in the 1920s and '30s
Latino Children Suffered in Segregated Schools
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Content: His wife refused to accompany him and the family never saw him again. When deportations finally ended around 1936, up to 2 million Mexican-Americans had been “repatriated.” ( Because many of the repatriation attempts were informal or conducted by private companies, it is nearly impossible to quantify the exact number of people who were deported.) Around one third of Los Angeles’ Mexican population left the country, as did a third of Texas’ Mexican-born population. Though both the state of California and the city of Los Angeles apologized for repatriation in the early 2000s, the deportations have largely faded from public memory. Latino Children Suffered in Segregated Schools
Another little-remembered facet of anti-Latino discrimination in the United States is school segregation. Unlike the South, which had explicit laws barring African American children from white schools, segregation was not enshrined in the laws of the southwestern United States. Nevertheless, Latino people were excluded from restaurants, movie theaters and schools. Latino students were expected to attend separate “Mexican schools” throughout the southwest beginning in the 1870s. At first, the schools were set up to serve the children of Spanish-speaking laborers at rural ranches.