In the 1940s, Mexican-Americans in the state of __________ led a successful legal battle to end school segregation in one city a
nd elected one of their own to public office in one of the state’s largest cities. These accomplishments indicated a growing militancy that would continue to evolve into the larger Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
In the 1940s, Mexican-Americans in the state of California led a successful legal battle to end school segregation in one city and elected one of their own to public office in one of the state’s largest cities. These accomplishments indicated a growing militancy that would continue to evolve into the larger Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
This particular legal Mendez v. Westminster case was the first case to hold that school segregation violates the 14th Amendment and made California the first state in the nation to end segregation in school years before landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that, contrary to the legal doctrine of separate but equal, “separate education facilities are inherently unequal” and ended segregation in the United States paving the way for better in the known Brown vs. Board of Education case, which would bring an end to school segregation in the whole country
In the 1940s, Mexican-Americans in the state of <em>California </em> led a successful legal battle to end school segregation in one city and elected one of their own to public office in one of the state’s largest cities. These accomplishments indicated a growing militancy that would continue to evolve into the larger Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
<em>Brown v. Board of Education </em>is a landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that, contrary to the legal doctrine of separate but equal, “separate education facilities are inherently unequal” and ended segregation in the United States.
