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Westminster: Helping to Pave the Way for Brown v. The Board of Education". Richard Valencia, Teacher's College Record, Vol. 107, Number 3, March 2005, p 389. Philippa Strum, Mendez v. Westminster : school desegregation and Mexican-American rights, Lawrence, Kan., University Press of Kansas, c2010. Sandra Robbie, Mendez vs. Westminster: For All ...
Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños discusses the little-known Orange County case that made California the first state in the nation to end school segregation – seven years before Brown v. Board of Education. NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall and then-California Governor Earl Warren played key roles in both cases.
The success of the Mendez v. Westminster case made California the first state in the nation to end segregation in school. This paved the way for the better-known Brown v. Board of Education seven years later, which would bring an end to school segregation in the entire country. Sandra Robbie wrote and produced the documentary Mendez v.
Sylvia Mendez and her Latino parents paved the way for desegregation in Mendez v Westminster but this Hispanic civil rights contribution is not largely known.
As a little girl in Westminster, California, in 1945, Sylvia Mendez yearned to attend the “beautiful school” with the “nice playground” where the school bus A Latino family paved the way ...
The Mendez family won in federal court in 1946, with Judge Paul J. McCormick writing, “A paramount requisite in the American system of public education is social equality. It must be open to all ...
Hedgepeth and Williams v. Board of Education: 1944 131 N.J.L. 153 NJ Supreme Court case that prohibited racial segregation in NJ schools Mendez v. Westminster: 1946 64 F. Supp. 544 prohibits segregating Mexican American children in California Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla. 1948 322 U.S. 631 access to taxpayer state funded law schools
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