Perspective
Jul. 9, 2010
A Leader in the Fight Against School Segregation
Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendez family won a ground-breaking lawsuit against school districts requiring segregation of Mexican-American children, writes David Ettinger of Horvitz & Levy.
Before there was Linda Brown of Topeka, Kan., there were Sylvia, Gonzalo, and Jerome Méndez of Westminster, Calif. In 1950, third grader Linda was turned away when her father tried to enroll her in the neighborhood "white" school instead of the more-distant school for "colored" children. Seven years earlier, however, the Méndez children were similarly told they could attend only the "...
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