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Revisiting Mendez V. Westminster: Desegregation For Latinx Americans On Monday's Access Utah

Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:53:53
Publish Date: 2020-01-06 11:32:47
Description: From Wikipedia: “Sylvia Mendez (born June 7, 1936) is an American civil rights activist of Mexican - Puerto Rican heritage. At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California [1] and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement . [2]
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