Sylvia Mendez Presentation
- What
- Sylvia Mendez Presentation
- When
- 5/18/2023, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Sylvia Mendez was at the centre of the court case Mendez v. Westminster, in which a federal court ruled in the mid-1940s that the school segregation of Hispanic children was unconstitutional. The case successfully ended segregation in California and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement.