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Joe J. Bernal  

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  • Joe J. Bernal, a civil rights leader and community activist who played a key role in establishing bilingual education in Texas, was born in San Antonio, Texas, into a family of nine children. He graduated from Lanier High School in the heart of San Antonio's barrio in 1944. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Bernal, Joe J. (1927-)]

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