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"Mendez v. Westminster": Desegregating California's Schools
URL: http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/osi04.soc.ush.civil.mendez/

Description:
Video clip, background essay, and discussion questions about the "Mendez v. Westminster" California school desegregation case. "In 1946, eight years before the landmark Supreme Court decision in 'Brown v. Board of Education,' Mexican Americans in Orange County, California won ... [this] class action lawsuit to dismantle the segregated school system that existed there." A part of Teacher's Domain from the WGBH Educational Foundation.

LII Topics: California: Education, Education, Integration/Segregation

Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation

LII Database Information:
Record 23817 created by Maria Brandt on 05/09/2007
Last modification on 11/22/2008
Published: 12/06/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23817

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