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Alice Piper (7 June 1908 – 22 August 1985) was a Paiute (Nüümü) woman, who as a girl residing in Big Pine, California petitioned to attend the newly built Big Pine High School in 1923 and was denied entry due to her race. [1]
In 1923, Alice Piper, a 15-year-old Native American living in Big Pine, wanted to attend Big Pine school, but was denied on grounds of her ethnicity. Piper, the daughter of Pike and Annie Piper, sued the school district, claiming the state law establishing separate schools for “Indian children” and other children of Asian parentage was ...
During the 20th century, two significant test cases for school segregation were filed in California. The first being Piper v. Big Pine School District of Inyo County, petitioned in 1923. [6] Alice Piper, and many other children of the Paiute tribe, tried to enroll in the local all-white public high school. When they were denied by the school ...
Alice Piper, a 15-year-old Paiute student, successfully sued the Big Pine School District in Inyo County, California so she could attend a new public school with white students.
TV cooking legend Julia Child, California's first poet laureate Ina Donna Coolbrith, Olympian Vicki Manalo Draves, civil rights pioneer Mitsuye Endo, civil rights activist Alice Piper, gorilla ...
It was a precursor case to both the Alice Piper v. Pine School District (1924) which allowed Native American children to attend school in California and Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which decided separate schooling based on race was unconstitutional. Language from her judgment was incorporated into the Indian Citizenship Act (1924 ...
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The cowgirl, who held her badge from 1949 through 1951, also worked as a dog breeder, cattle herder, Christian missionary and caregiver during a well-traveled life.