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The "Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center" is a dual school campus commemorating the efforts of the Méndez and other families from the Westminster case. In September 2011, an exhibit honoring the Mendez v. Westminster case was presented at the Old Courthouse Museum in Santa Ana. This exhibit, known as "A Class Act", is sponsored by the ...
Sylvia Mendez, Felicitas and Gonzalo's daughter, remembers being at the center of the legal fight in the Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County case after being denied enrollment ...
On December 8, 1997, the Santa Ana Unified School District dedicated the Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez Intermediate Fundamental School in Santa Ana, California. In 2003, writer/producer Sandra Robbie received an Emmy Award for her documentary Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children / Para Todos los Niños .
Felicitas Mendez lived another 3 decades and died of heart failure at her daughter's home in April 1998. [8] Mendez v. Westminster set an important precedent for ending segregation in the United States. Thurgood Marshall, who was later appointed a Supreme Court justice in 1967, became the lead NAACP attorney in the 1954 Brown case.
Born in Puerto Rico in 1916, Mendez moved to the U.S. as a preteen where her family worked in the fields. Google Doodle honors civil rights pioneer Felicitas Mendez for Hispanic Heritage Month ...
The House passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday evening to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse in honor of a Latino family who paved the way for school desegregation.
Felicitas Mendez (1916 - April 12, 1998) was a Puerto Rican woman who became an American civil rights pioneer. In 1946, Mendez and her husband led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States. Their landmark desegregation case, known as Mendez
Sylvia Mendez well remembers being sent to a "Mexican school" in Orange County. Her parents' landmark lawsuit challenged segregated schools in California.