Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights
Feb. 26, 2021
School desegregation in California before Brown
This story is set in the 1940s in California’s Orange County, then rural and agriculture-dependent. Owing to the era’s relatively liberal immigration laws regarding Mexico (and other Western Hemisphere countries), many of the agricultural workers were of Mexican ancestry.
John S. Caragozian
Email: caragozian@gmail.com
John is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and sits on the Board of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. He welcomes ideas for future monthly columns on California's legal history at caragozian@gmail.com.
This story is set in the 1940s in California's Orange County, then rural and agriculture-dependent. Owing to the era's relatively liberal immigration laws regarding Mexico (and other Western Hemisphere countries), many of the agricultural workers were of Mexican ancestry.
Gonzalo Mendez was one of those workers. He was born in Mexico in 1913, received some elementary school education, and immigrated to ...
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