After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara formed a clique that included two Black girls and a White Jewish girl, fostering interracial relationships at Loma Alta Elementary in California.
The Pasadena Unified School District, once ordered to desegregate in the 1970s, still faces challenges from White flight, causing only about half the school-age youth to attend public school.
A U.S. district court judge's ruling in 1970 on the Pasadena school system led to a significant busing program to enforce desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Interracial and intercultural relationships were treasured by students at Loma Alta Elementary in Altadena, California, where racial differences were acknowledged but not a primary focus.
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