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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 ...
Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School is shown behind the Pico-Aliso Station of the Gold Line on First Street. The school is named after Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, parents of American civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez who at eight years old, played an instrumental role in the Mendez v.
In September 2009, Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School opened in Boyle Heights. The school was named after Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, parents of American civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez, who played an instrumental role in the case. Sylvia Mendez at the, “In Conversation with… Education for All – The Sylvia Mendez Story” in 2014.
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 ...
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 ...
Mendez was born in 1936 in Santa Ana, California.Her parents were Gonzalo Mendez, an immigrant from Mexico who had a successful agricultural business, and Felicitas Mendez, a native of Juncos, Puerto Rico.
He graduated from Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School in Boyle Heights in 2011. But his affiliation with a gang west of downtown (a small world away from his Boyle Heights home) made moving ...
Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School (Boyle Heights, opened 2009) (Jaguars) James Monroe High School (North Hills, opened 1958) (Vikings) Narbonne High School (Harbor City, opened 1925) (Gauchos) North Hollywood High School (opened 1927) (Huskies) Northridge Academy High School (opened 2004) (Pumas) Highly Gifted Magnet