Civil Rights
Feb. 23, 2011
Mendez v. Westminster Decision Feted
Federal and state judges and bar leaders commemorated the 65th anniversary of a landmark Orange County school desegregation case that prefigured Brown v. Board of Education.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - Sixty-five years ago, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that Orange County school districts could not force Latino children into segregated schools, laying important groundwork for the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education eight years later.
Friday, on the anniversary of the judge's ruling in Mendez v. Westminster School District, judicial a...
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