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No official argument against Proposition 6 was submitted to the California Secretary of State and no opponents were listed on the ballot. [5] However, public polling has shown the oppose side leading. [9] The oppose side has not established an official campaign and raised $0 as of October 30, 2024. [4]
Back in 2017, the families of children in some of California's worst-performing public schools sued the state for failing to teach low-income black and Hispanic children how to read.
Nevada voters decisively passed a similar measure that, in contrast to California's initiative, used the word "slavery." There should be no place in the California Constitution for anything as ...
For the record: 12:39 p.m. Nov. 1, 2024: An earlier version of this article stated there were nearly 60,000 prisoners with jobs in California, based on incorrect data provided by prison officials ...
Decided 1874; Citation(s) Ward v. Flood, 48 Cal 49–52 (1874).: Holding; The law providing for the education of children of African descent in separate schools at the public expense is not in conflict with the Constitution of California, nor in conflict with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Gonzalo dedicated the next year to a lawsuit against the Westminster School District of Orange County. The school district offered to compromise by allowing the Mendez children to attend the elementary school without any other students of Mexican-American descent. The Mendez family declined the offer and continued the lawsuit.
(Reuters) -After California state legislators passed bills addressing the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most ambitious of the reparations proposals.
In 1849, a white man lost a case against a black man who was accused of both being a slave and being in debt to the accuser. At the time, California was not under U.S. rule, and Mexican law, which prohibited slavery, was used in the case. This resulted in the legal precedent of the official non-acknowledgement of slavery in California.