Light-skinned Alex Bernal was born in California 32 years ago of Mexican parents. Until 1937 he lived in the jampacked slum hovels (shared by Negroes and Mexicans), just beyond the Santa Fe tracks in Fullerton, Calif, (pop. 10,680). Last March, after six years of farming elsewhere, Alex Bernal came home to Fullerton to manage a truck garden, found trouble as well as work.
He paid $750 down and installed his attractive, Mexican-born wife and two small daughters in a $4,250 white-stucco house. The house is in Fullerton's restricted Sunnyside section of moderate-priced homes,...
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