@article{8b74338e396c46f8b05c44e5a5a5a85e,
title = "From Segregation to School Finance: The Legal Context for Language Rights in the United States",
author = "Jeanne Powers",
note = "Funding Information: Federal agencies also began to broaden official definitions of discrimination beyond the Black–White binary paradigm of race (; ). Although the Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination based on “race, color, religion or national origin” (78 Stat. 241, Section 401(b)), HEW and the Justice Department initially did not use the new legislation to address the segregation of Mexican American students because they considered them White for desegregation purposes (; ). In the mid-1960s, Mexican American activists demanded that the federal government address discrimination against Mexican Americans and appoint Mexican American representatives to the agencies and commissions charged with implementing federal civil rights legislation (; ). In 1968, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund was founded with a grant from the Ford Foundation to fund civil rights litigation. Some of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund{\textquoteright}s early cases were desegregation lawsuits aimed at forcing HEW to take action against the discrimination against Mexican American students the latter had extensively documented in the wake of the Civil Rights Act. ",
year = "2014",
month = mar,
doi = "10.3102/0091732X13506550",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "38",
pages = "81--105",
journal = "Review of Research in Education",
issn = "0091-732X",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "1",
}