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Multicultural Timeline
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Multicultural Education
MAY 19, 1947
Mendez VS Westminster
Two Mexican American students entered a new school where they were immediatley discriminatd against. The Mendez family was not happy about what was happening to their child. Because of this, they began to form a court case and callenge segregation in schools. They challeneged their opposers due to language deficiency and discussed how their children were denied the 14th amendment rights. March 18th, 1946, judge McCormick ruled that the segregation was damaging to the Mexican American students. The schools appealed, and the case showed that the ruling violated California law.
Brown VS. Board of Education
The supreme court ruled that seperating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
MAY 18, 1954
Ruby Bridges Hall
MAY 19, 1960
Ruby was a six-year-old in 1960, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was court ordered to a desegregated school in first-grade. She and her mother were escorted to school everyday by federal marshals. The following year, many other African American students joined her in this school. Ruby graduated from a desegregated school and beacme an activist for others like her.
1964 Civil Rights Act
FEB 1, 1964
This act protects people from discrimination due to race, national orgin, color, or anything else which is funded by or receives federal financial assistance.
The Watts Riot
AUG 11, 1965
Due to high unemployment, poor schools, and inferior living conditions, there were riots that brokw out withing African American communities in Watts, Los Angeles. The riots went on for six days which resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage. The riots also resulted in 34 deaths, and 1,000 injured people.
Bilingual Education Act
JAN 2,
1968
Immigrant populations grew and school districts struggled to educate immigrant children who did not speak english fluently. Texas senator, Yarborough proposed the bilingual education act of 1968, which helped provide funding to districts which created staffing to help educate students who are bilingual.
Martin Luther King Jr.
APR 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an advocate for 13 years for civil rights. He brought a lot of awareness to the importance of education. He worked a lot to make sure that African Americans would gain the rights that they had been denied for so long. He fought tirelessly for equality in education and opportunities for all people.
Title IX of the Education Amendments
JUN 23,
1972
This act prohibits sex discrimination in any education program of activity in which has funding from federal financial assissteance. This made school a place that all people feel welcomed and safe in their educational setting.
Keyes VS School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado
JUN 21, 1973
United States Supreme Court case that claimed segregation had affected a substantial part of the school system. It violated the Equal Protection Clause. This caused the whole district in Denver, Colorado became desegregated.
Lau VS Nichols
JAN 1, 1974
The Supreme Court Case that made it so that a California school district receiving ffederal funds must provide ESL students with instruction in English to ensure equal education to all students.
Convention on the Rights of the Child
SEP 20, 1989
In 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. The CRC emphasized that children were awarded special legal protections that encourage civil social rights.
Terrorist Attacks
SEP 11, 2001
After 9/11 happened, a lot of people began to become descriminatory against different people groups. This affected the education that they were provided with. Also, after 9/11, there was a major heigtening in domestic-security. This is something that is now taught in classrooms. It has impacted students safety procedures, and other things.
Goals of
Multicultural Education
Goals
There are many goals to multicultural education. A few of the main ones are the fact that every person should have the right to being properly educated. They should have the resources provided to them that they need to succeed. Also, we should provide evry studnet with the opportunity to be properly educated on how to love others well and succeed in a multicultural community.
Works Cited
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mendez-v-westminster/
https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/ruby-bridges-hall/
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/9-11-the-imprint-on-schools