by
Duncan Tonatiuh
published in
2014
After Sylvia Mendez was denied enrollment in a whites-only school in the 1940s, her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated education in California.
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