Friday, March 29, 2024
 

Before ‘Brown V. Board,’ came ‘Mendez v. Westminster’ School District


Seven years before the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendezes brought a class-action lawsuit with other Latino families against four Orange County school districts that had separate schools for whites and Mexicans. Their case went all the way to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. And in 1947 they won: Segregation in those districts ended, and the rest of the state followed.

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