Roots of local Latino history celebrated in special city display at Leatherby Libraries
In 1944, Lorenzo Ramirez of El Modena, Calif., was stunned when he was turned away from the neighborhood elementary school where he wanted to enroll his two sons. He’d been away for some time, working on the sprawling Murphy Ranch in Whittier, but he’d grown up in El Modena when school segregation wasn’t practiced. And