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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.
Sylvia Mendez well remembers being sent to a "Mexican school" in Orange County. Her parents' landmark lawsuit challenged segregated schools in California.
Sylvia Mendez and her Latino parents paved the way for desegregation in Mendez v Westminster but this Hispanic civil rights contribution is not largely known. 1940s segregation kept her out of the ...
In 1945, Mendez v. Westminster was filed in the California Supreme and Ninth District Court. [ 4 ] The plaintiffs were Mexican and Latino fathers, who claimed that their children, like Sylvia Mendez , were being unconstitutionally discriminated against when they were forced to join segregated Mexican schools in several California school districts.
The Mendez family move was prompted by the opportunity to lease a 60-acre (240,000 m 2) farm in Westminster from the Munemitsus, a Japanese family who had been relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II. The income the Mendez family earned from the farm enabled them to hire attorney David Marcus and pursue litigation.
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.
The school was named after Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, parents of American civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez, who played an instrumental role in the case. On October 14, 2009, Chapman University 's Leatherby Libraries dedicated the Mendez et al v.
Two years ago, Muñoz was featured in a "Poderosas" mural project in Costa Mesa that honored Latinas including labor leader Dolores Huerta and Sylvia Mendez, who integrated a Mexican school in ...