OCDE Newsroom | New book documents bond between two OC families on the road to school desegregation
A new book tells the story of how two immigrant families intersected on the path to desegregating public schools in Orange County and across California.
Pacific Citizen | The Munemitsu Legacy
Many Orange County, Calif., schoolchildren know the name “Mendez.” After all, the iconic name is front and center of the landmark civil rights case that desegregated several of the county’s public schools in 1947, preceding the 1954 Brown v. Board case on a national level…
The Capital Press | Beauty out of dust: 75 years later, Japanese-Americans remember World War II incarceration
Seventy-five years ago this week — Sept. 2, 1945 — Japan formally surrendered, ending World War II. In the months following, thousands of Japanese-Americans, including the Tsugawa family, were released from prison camps that had isolated them…