Word: bernal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernal Case...
Congratulations on your fair and newsworthy treatment of the suit involving the civil rights of Mexican-Americans, i.e., Mr. Alex Bernal and his family in Fullerton, Calif. (TIME, Sept...
...paid $750 down and installed his attractive, Mexican-born wife and two small daughters in a $4,250 white-stucco house. The house is in Fullerton's restricted Sunnyside section of moderate-priced homes, one street removed from the slums where Alex Bernal was raised. The Bernals were quiet, clean, good neighbors. But they were also "non-Caucasian...
...That might seem desirable, if we wanted to depart from democratic principles. . . . Mr. Bernal is not a Mexican according to our law. ... It would not take Mrs. Bernal long to become an American. . . . The Republic of Mexico is ... a friendly neighbor. . . . Because I feel that the [deed] restriction is contrary to public policy and . . . decidedly unconstitutional ... I will order judgment for defendants...
...Alex Bernal had moved across the tracks to stay...