Symposium to recount Orange County segregation case

A symposium titled “Doss v. Bernal: Mexican Apartheid in Orange County, 1900–1943” will be held Monday, November 21, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., in the California Room at the UCLA Faculty Center. The purpose of this symposium is to draw public attention to the important but little known desegregation case Doss v. Bernal (1943). The case successfully challenged the residential segregation of Mexican Americans in Orange County and resulted in one of the earliest legal victories against racial housing covenants in the United States. The symposium will feature the testimonios of surviving members of the Bernal family, as well as special presentations by various scholars. The event is co-sponsored by the CSRC, the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA Vice Provost of Diversity and Faculty Development, and the UCLA Law School Critical Race Program.