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| Title: | Documenting Brown 4 : Mendez v. Westminster |
| Date: | 1920-1946 |
| Description: | Until the 1940s, Mexican Americans throughout the Southwest faced discrimination in education, based on national origin. In California, Gonzalo Mendez filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of his children and 5,000 Mexican Americans who were denied equal access to education. Mendez won; in 1946, the U.S. District Court in southern California ruled that separate is not equal, formally challenging the decades-old "separate but equal" doctrine. Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Collection funded by: Opensource. Grade range: 6-12. Part of the series "Brown Reactions" : 1. Documenting Brown -- 2. Plessy v. Ferguson -- 3. Gong Lum v. Rice -- 4. Mendez v. Westminster -- 5. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 -- 6. Brown v. Board of Education, 1955 -- 7. Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- 8. Collected Excerpts. Lesson plans using this resource: Re-examining Brown. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Instructional materials | Teaching guides | Resource units | Moving images | Historical works (Nonfiction) |
| Subjects: | Mendez, Gonzalo--Trials, litigation, etc. | Warren, Earl, 1891-1974 | Mendez, Sylvia | African Americans--Civil rights--California--Orange County | Busing for school integration--California--Orange County | School integration--California--Orange County | Mexican Americans--Social conditions--California--Orange County | Mexican Americans--Segregation--California--Orange County | Mexican Americans--Civil rights--California--Orange County | Mexican Americans children--California--Orange County | Mexican Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--California--Orange County | Students--California--Orange County | Minorities--Education | League of United Latin American Citizens | Civil rights movements--California--Orange County | Equality--California--Orange County | Minorities--Education | Discrimination in education--California--Orange County | Segregation in education--California--Orange County | Segregation in education--Law and legislation--California | Public schools--California--Orange County | Orange County (Calif.)--Race relations | United States. District Court (California) | Westminster School District of Orange County--Trials, litigation, etc. | Mexican Americans--Segregation--California | Orange County (Calif.) |
| Collection: | Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection |
| Institution: | WGBH Educational Foundation |
| Contributors: | Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection | WGBH Educational Foundation | Mendez, Sylvia | Gonzales, Gilbert | Arriola, Christopher |
| Online Publisher: | [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation | 2002/2008 |
| Rights and Usage: | The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. ©2002 KOCE-TV Foundation. To purchase the film "Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños" call (888) 246-4585. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/osi04/soc/ush/civil/mendez2/index.html |
