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Education

May 11, 2004

'Mendez' Provided Preview of 'Brown'

WESTMINSTER - In 1945, a group of Orange County Latino families, led by tenant farmers Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, filed suit so they could send their children to nearby all-white schools in Westminster instead of the shabby, distant schools set aside for "Mexicans."

By Joy C. Shaw
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WESTMINSTER - In 1945, a group of Orange County Latino families, led by tenant farmers Gonzalo and Felicitas M...

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