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In the 1960s, the assassinations of Dr. King, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy tore at the soul of America. The loss of these leaders created a vacuum of hope, yet the Civil Rights ...
Sylvia Mendez (born June 7, 1936) 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.
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The effort to name the federal courthouse in L.A. after the Mendez family seems like the type of feel-good story this country needs more of these days. So who on earth could be opposed to it?
Felicitas Gómez Martínez de Méndez (February 5, 1916 – April 12, 1998) 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 California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States.
Nestor Mendez was elected as the ninth Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) on March 18, 2015. [2] He began serving his five-year term on July 13, 2015, and on March 20, 2020, was unanimously re-elected by the General Assembly to serve a second five-year term.
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., will introduce legislation to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse after the Latino family whose lawsuit Mendez v. Westminster paved the way for school desegregation.
In December of the same year, he was promoted president of Media Matters, having previously served as its executive vice president. He succeeded the organization’s founder David Brock . [ 3 ] When he assumed the position, he stated that Media Matters would shift the focus of its scrutiny from the conservative media to " alt-right " websites ...