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Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality (Critical America (New York University Paperback)) by Richard R. Valencia, Michael Bonura Paperback, 508 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-8147-8830-0 / 0814788300 ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8830-1 / 9780814788301 In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Ame |