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Marfa, Texas, is known internationally for its arts scene. But on the south side of the city, there’s this old school. It’s a school where teachers once paddled Latino students for speaking Spanish. Now, some of those same students — grandparents and retirees in their 80s — are working to save the long-shuttered segregated Blackwell School and make it a national historic site to teach the history of segregated schools for Latinos in the United States.Host: Gustavo ArellanoAdvertisementGuests: L.A. Times Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-FiskeMore reading: Saving the school where kids were paddled for speaking Spanish Lorenzo Ramirez, late plaintiff in famed school desegregation case, honored by Orange Mendez vs. segregation: 70 years later, famed case ‘isn’t just about Mexicans. It’s about everybody coming together’