Felicitas Méndez
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Felicitas Gómez Martínez de Méndez was a Puerto Rican activist in the American civil rights movement. In 1946, Méndez and her husband, Gonzalo, led an educational civil rights battle that changed Cali
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Sylvia Mendez
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Sylvia Mendez is an American civil rights activist and retired nurse. At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case
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…and the Westminster school district was no exception. The district mandated separate campuses for Hispanics and white Anglos. Méndez's three children, Sylvia, Gonzalo Jr. and Jerome Méndez, attended Hoover Elementary, a two-room wooden shack in the middle of the city's Mexican neighborhood, along with the…
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Sylvia Mendez when she was 8 years old.
The story of Mendez v. Westminster book monument.
Children walking with books in their hands. Resembling the many children that were represented in the civil rights case.