Saturday, September 18, 2010

Bernal’s housing-covenant case, 1943

     Gustavo Arellano writes:

Cal State Fullerton Grad Student Grad Finds Missing Link Between Alex Bernal Housing Covenant Case and the Supreme Court (OC Weekly)

     It was a pleasure earlier this summer to report on the story of Alex Bernal, the longtime Fullerton resident who successfully fought off a lawsuit filed by racist white neighbors in 1943 that wanted him out of their neighborhood solely because he was Mexican. My sole frustration with the article was that I couldn't establish a direct link between the Orange County Superior Court case (Doss v. Bernal) and any of the more-famous housing-covenant cases that followed it, and that I couldn't find any proof that legendary civil rights attorney Loren Miller had any knowledge of the case.
     Thank, God, then for the ever-curious mind of Luis F. Fernandez…. (continued)

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...