http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_v._Hurley

                                                                                                                                                                      Mamie Tape & Family: Mamie Tape and her family, their fight for equal education.      

        Mamie Tape was an eight-year-old Chinese American girl whom was born in the United States, thus making her a citizen. Mamie Tape's family resided in San Francisco and and her parents had steady jobs. When they tried to enroll her into Spring Valley School, her admisson was denied because of her Chinese decent. Infuriated, her parents had taken the issue to California's Supreme Court and sued the San Francisco Board of Education. The case argued that the school's decision to was against the California Political code. It had stated,

"Every school, unless otherwise provided by law, must be open for the admission of all children between six and twenty-one years of age residing in the district; and the board of trustees, or city board of education, have power to admit adults and children not residing in the district, whenever good reasons exist therefor. Trustees shall have the power to exclude children of filthy or vicious habits, or children suffering from contagious or infectious diseases."

The judge was in favor of the Tape family and they won the case, he had wrote, "To deny a child, born of Chinese parents in this state, entrance to the public schools would be a violation of the law of the state and the Constitution of the United States"

The statement written can be no more true than what it already is. Even though the judge had ruled that in favor ofMamie Tape's acceptance to Spring Valley School, the school board officials had lobbied against it for a seperate school system for Chinese and other "Monogolian" children. A bill was passed through the California state legislature that permitted the school board to establish "Oriental Public Schools" in San Francisco.

http://www.cetel.org/shows.html This link is directed towards a documentary about Mamie Tape's case, it was directed by Loni Ding, the founder of CET (Center for Education Telecommunications). It is a non-profit site and organization that was specially made for the interest of multiculturism centered on Asian American concerns. The documentary is twenty-one minutes long and the insitutional price is one-hundred and twenty-five dollars. The home use price for the video is forty dollars. You can order the video online. The video also comes in either VHS or DVD.