Hispanic assimilation is a little bit different than it was in the 1950s, but mostly the same. - - Donna Poisl
By JULIO MORALES, Imperial Valley Press Staff Writer
Growing up in Brawley during the 1950s, Alicia Armenta remembers a time when students overheard speaking Spanish on the playground were admonished and told to stand by the fence surrounding the campus as punishment.
The daughter of Mexican immigrants who immigrated to the Valley in the 1940s, Armenta said that back then the tendency was for society to devalue anything associated with being Mexican.
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