Adolfo "Babe" Romo
ABT 1878 - 1956
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornCalifornia, USA
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BiographySheepherder 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
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