Without Separation: Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez

This civil-rights history centers on Roberto Alvarez, a student involved in a 1931 court case in Lemon Grove, California. The case challenged racism and segregation in schools. Alvarez’s immigrant community brought the fight to court and won, an outcome described as the first successful use of the courts by an immigrant community to oppose injustice. The book recounts this legal challenge to prejudice and school separation.