Mendez Class, Smithsonian: National Museum of American History
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In 1947, five Mexican-American fathers challenged school segregation in Orange County, CA, in the Mendez v. Westminster court case. A US Court of Appeals ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional, and Governor of California, Earl Warren (and soon to become the Chief Justice presiding over Brown v. Board of Education), repealed all segregation laws in California. This was the first ruling in the United States that favored desegregation.
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