Sylvia Mendez
Videos
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
Sylvia Mendez D Yhq ZKO Xk AY Frk J
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.
Felicitas Méndez
Videos
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
Sylvia 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. The family had just moved from Santa Ana to Westminster to tend a farm that they were renting from the Munemitsus, a…
Felicitas with her husband Gonzalo Méndez
Thurgood Marshall