Deportation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans

 Teach  About Unconstitutional Deportation of Mexican and Mexican Americans in the 1930s
 Feb. 28, 2016    11am-2pm

  *   Learn about the unconstitutional deportation of over 1.5 million Mexican and Mexican Americans in the 1930s for teaching your students in elementary, middle school and high school.
  *   Immediately implement lessons about this mass forced expulsion of American born children and their parents as part of the 2016 California State History and Social Studies Framework.
  *   Be a teacher leader incorporating this injustice into your social studies, history and language arts lessons as part of Common Core implementation.
  *   Learn how Bell Gardens Elementary School 5th graders researched this injustice and were moved to lead a successful campaign for inclusion of this topic in our California curriculum (AB 146, 2016)
  *   Take home successful lessons and resources that facilitate implementation of AB 146 “which may include study of the unconstitutional deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States…“encourages the incorporation of survivor,  rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, the unconstitutional deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States…”
  *    Learn how beginning in 1929, state/local municipalities and private business forcibly expelled over 1.5 million people of Mexican descent from the United States
  *    Meet expelled survivors and family members
  *    Visit the related exhibit and Apology Memorial (SB 670, 2005) at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes to learn more and plan field trips for your students.
  *    Engage in meaningful conversations and experiences related to the historical immigration, social and racial issues related to this mass expulsion with concrete connections to the present
  *    Receive free related successful lessons and resources

Place: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, 501 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

Date/Time:  February 28, 2016  11am-2pm

Registration: FREE.

Information: www.lapca.org<http://www.lapca.org/>

Presenters:

Francisco Balderrama, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, CSU Los Angeles and author of Decade of Betrayal:
          Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s.
Christine Valenciana, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Elementary & Bilingual
               Education, CSU Fullerton
M. Guadalupe Espinoza, M.A., American Language Program, CSU Fullerton.
Leslie Hiatt, M.S., Teacher, Bell Gardens Elementary School