Sylvia Mendez
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title:
Sylvia Mendez
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Sylvia Mendez is an American civil rights activist and retired nurse. 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 and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement. Mendez grew up during a time when most southern and southwestern schools were segregated. In the case of California, Hispanics were not allowed to attend schools that were
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American civil rights activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Mendez
date created:
2007-04-03T07:15:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T05:14:56Z
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