Editing Sierra Madre, California (section)

====1940s====
[[File:School house SM Ca 1881.jpg|thumb|right|Sierra Madre one-room school house in 1881, at the corner of Hermosa and Grove Grove. Grove Grove was called Live Oak in 1881]] 
On May 14, 1942, Sierra Madre's Japanese population was required to depart for the detention facility in [[Tulare, California]]. During this decade, Sierra Madre Civic Club and the Sierra Madre Lions Club were organized. The Sierra Madre Community Nursery School also opened. In May 1947, the first Pioneer Days Parade was held. The heaviest recorded snow in Sierra Madre occurred in 1949, blanketing the town with {{convert|3|to|4|in|cm}} of snow overnight.<ref name="history"/>

In 1948, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]], in the case of ''[[Shelley v. Kraemer]]'', ended racially restrictive covenants that had prevented black people from owning homes in Sierra Madre and some neighboring cities. However, residential segregation patterns had already become established and persisted up until 1968 when realtors began to routinely show homes to black people.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqgYRg8DMaIC&pg=RA7-PA110|title=Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court|date=October 1975|chapter=Pasadena School Board of Education v. Spangler|language=en}}</ref>