The new issue of the California Supreme Court Historical Society’s Review includes an article I wrote about a Native American civil rights victory in the Supreme Court.
The article begins:
June 2, 2024, marked the hundredth anniversary of the California Supreme Court’s opinion in Piper v. Big Pine School Dist. The decision ordered the defendant school district to admit to its school Alice Piper, “a female Indian child of the age of fifteen years,” instead of requiring her to attend a separate “Indian school.” The court characterized the lawsuit as a constitutional challenge to the district’s authority “to exclude Indian children, because of blood differences alone.”
Related:
The centennial celebration of a school desegregation case