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On February 15, 2011, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sylvia Mendez, [11] the daughter of Gonzalo Mendez, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. She, along with her two brothers, Gonzalo, Jr. and Jerome, were some of the Mexican-American students who were denied admission to their local Westminster school, which ...
The Mendez family move was prompted by the opportunity to lease a 60-acre (240,000 m 2) farm in Westminster from the Munemitsus, a Japanese family who had been relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II. The income the Mendez family earned from the farm enabled them to hire attorney David Marcus and pursue litigation.
Almost eight decades ago, in the area where the courthouse stands, Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, a Mexican American couple, brought a lawsuit that ended school segregation in California in 1947 ...
On September 9, 2009 a second school opened in the Los Angeles community of Boyle Heights bearing the name "Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center." The dual school campus commemorated the efforts of the Mendez and other families from the Westminster case. On February 15, 2011, Sylvia Mendez was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [16]
New Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman's office is pushing back against a "meritless" claim of a potential conflict of interest in the Menendez brothers’ case amid reports that their ...
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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 ...
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