print email comment close "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. 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