Adolfo "Babe" Romo

Sheepherder and cowboy.

Came to Arizona from Anaheim, California, in the late 1800s. Came to work for W. W. Jones, married his daughter, Joaquina, and started a ranch on land

her father had given her in section 35, south of Tempe. In 1925, when his children reached school age, he filed a complaint in Superior Court against the Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 on behalf of his children and the Mexican people of Tempe against school segregation. He charged that the Mexican children were being taught by student teachers who were not certified, and therefore, not qualified to teach. He won this, the first school desegration case involving Hispanics in Arizona, referred to as the "Landmark Decision."

Lived at 227 E. 5th Street in 1920, 21

Irene Gomez Hormell, genealogy notes

Gloria Parra Leon, genealogy notes

Mary J. Gomez, biography form, ASU Archives

Laura Jones Curry, THM oral history

Federal census (Tempe), 1910

TN, 11 Jan 1896

TDN, 14 Apr 1971

AR, 30 Jan 1993

Josephine Andrade obit

Kathryn J. Gomez obit, AR, 18 Apr 1947

Margaret Jones Frank obit, TDN, 8 Feb 1985

BIO-Jones

BIO-Jones, W.W.

BIO-Gomez

BIO-Romo

HPS-175

Tempe CD, 1920, 21

Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe

Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, pp. 71-72, 107