Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children

Mendez vs. Westminster For All the ChildrenPara Todos los Nios is a 2003 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Sandra Robbie. The film features Sylvia Mendez, Robert L. Carter, and others.

In 1945, the plaintiffs of Mendez, Palomino, Estrada, Guzman and Ramirez filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of 5,000 Mexican American children to integrate the schools in four Orange County school districts Westminster, El Modena, Santa Ana, and Garden Grove.Mendez vs. Westminster For All the ChildrenPara Todos los Nios discusses the littleknown Orange County case that made California the first state in the nation to end school segregation seven years before Brown v. Board of Education. NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall and thenCalifornia Governor Earl Warren played key roles in both cases. ........

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