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During the Great Depression, politicians struggling to respond to the economic crisis needed a scapegoat, and racialized ...

IT IS FREE, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. NEW EFFORTS AT THE STATE CAPITOL TO RECOGNIZE A DARK CHAPTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CALIFORNIA HISTORY. LAWMAKERS ARE CALLING FOR THE STATE TO PLACE A STATUE ...

8:36 p.m. Feb. 6, 2025: A previous version of this article described Guadalupe Espinoza as a lecturer at Cal State Long Beach. She is a lecturer at Cal State Fullerton. For the first nine years of her ...

People of Mexican descent, including U.S.-born citizens, were put on trains and buses and deported to Mexico during the Great Depression. In Los Angeles, up to 75,000 were deported by train in one ...

More than one million people of Mexican descent, who were mostly American citizens, were rounded up in informal raids and deported after being blamed from taking jobs from other U.S. citizens in the ...

My college students are always shocked when they learn that the U.S. deported an estimated 1.8 million people to Mexico in ...

California Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday called for the state to commemorate the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s, a 15-year period when nearly two million people of Mexican descent were deported ...

Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez, D-Long Beach, calls for the state to commemorate the 1930s Mexican Repatriation during a press conference on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Hannah Poukish California ...

As her junior year of high school came to a close in 2023, Tamara Gisiger’s history teacher tasked the class with a research project of their choosing. A then-17-year-old Gisiger narrowed in on what ...