- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Mendez v. Westminster : desegregating California's schools
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mendez vs. Westminster: Para Todos los Ninos/For All the Children (KOCE-TV Foundation)
- Date of Original:
- 1848/1946
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--California--Orange County
Busing for school integration--California--Orange County
School integration--California--Orange County
Mexican Americans--Social conditions--Orange County
Mexican Americans--Segregation--Orange County
Mexican Americans--Civil rights--California--Orange County
Mexican Americans children--California--Orange County
Mexican Americans--California--Orange County
Students--California--Orange County
Minorities--Education
Civil rights movements--California--Orange County
Equality--California--Orange County
Discrimination in education--California--Orange County
Public schools--California--Orange County
Race relations
Legislation--California
Westminster School District of Orange County--Trials, litigation, etc.
League of United Latin American Citizens
United States. District Court (California)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Mendez vs. Westminster: Para Todos los Ninos/For All the Children (Television program) - People:
- Mendez, Gonzalo--Trials, litigation, etc.
Warren, Earl, 1891-1974
Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc.
Ferguson, John H. (Judge)--Trials, litigation, etc. - Location:
- United States, California, Orange County, 33.67691, -117.77617
- Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
video recordings (physical artifacts)
oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- In 1946, eight years before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Mexican Americans in Orange County, California won a class action lawsuit to dismantle the segregated school system that existed there. In this video segment, Sylvia Mendez recalls the conditions that triggered the lawsuit and her parents' involvement in the case.
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: 3-12.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/osi04.soc.ush.civil.mendez/
- Rights Holder:
- 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.
- Extent:
- quicktime/video
12.1 Mb
ca. 8m 36s - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
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