In 1943, Sylvia Mendez and her two brothers tried to enroll ... Mendez said she hopes future generations will look at her family’s case as a symbol that anyone can help right a wrong – and ...

Sylvia Mendez She also noticed that the Latino students ... “Mendez High School is a symbol of great things when we are willing to dream and fight to make it happen,” he said at the graduation.

As a child, Sylvia Mendez thought her parents’ court case was all about a playground. That’s because in 1944, the school bus would drop her off at the white school, which had “manicured ...

"The Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez U.S. Courthouse will be a powerful symbol of the enduring Latino ... Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez’s daughter, Sylvia Mendez, in renaming his district’s ...

For Sylvia Mendez, it all started with a playground. The elementary school she attended in Westminster, California, in 1944 didn’t have one; that was a luxury reserved for the white schools.

And too few of them, and their stories, are well known. Of course, there is much more to the Mendez family’s story and how Sylvia’s father, a Mexican-born tenant farmer, ended up leading the ...

Feb. 18, 2005 -- -- When Sylvia Mendez was 9 years old in Orange County, Calif., she went to Hoover Elementary School. She wanted to go to the Westminster School 10 blocks away, but she wasn't ...

The video also features Sylvia Mendez, who as a little girl was turned away with her siblings from what was then known as Westminster’s 17th Street School. Because she and her brothers ...

Gonzalo Mendez’s testimony in a California courtroom was brief, but within it were layers of American history — of segregation, incarceration and inequality. It was also the straightforward ...

It all started in 1943, when Sylvia Mendez and her brothers attempted to go to Seventeenth Street School in Westminster. Instead of admitting them, school officials turned the Mendez siblings away ...