LibGuides: Mendez v Westminster: Reserve Materials

Books on Reserve

Mendez V. Westminster by Philippa Strum
Call Number: KF4155 .S77 2010 Reserve Desk
ISBN: 9780700617197
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
In 1945 Gonzalo and Felcitas Mendez, California farmers, sent their children off to the local school, only to be told that the students would have to attend a separate facility reserved for Mexican Americans. The Mendezes and other similarly aggrieved parents went to federal court to challenge the segregation. Uniquely, they did not claim racial discrimination, since Mexicans were legally considered white, but rather discrimination based on ancestry and supposed language deficiency that denied their children their Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection under the law.
The Other Struggle for Equal Schools by Ruben Donato
Call Number: LC2683 >D66 1997
ISBN: 0791435199
Publication Date: 1997-10-02

DVD on Reserve

Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Ninos (DVD)
Call Number: Reserve X0032

Mendez v. Westminster [videorecording] : Families for Equality (DVD)

Call Number: Reserve KFC654.5 .B46 2002

Articles on Reserve

Reserve materials are available in the library at the circulation desk or click on the hyperlink to access the materials. Provide the X number to the Clerk at the Reserve desk.

Mendez vs Westminster February 18, 1946
Mendez, et. al. v. Westminister (sic) School Dist. of Orange County et al. Original case in U.S. District Court, opinion Feb. 18, 1946 64 F. Supp. 544

Call Number: Reserve X4115P

Appeal Westminster v. Mendez April 14, 1947

Call Number: Reserve X4109P

All Things Considered
Transcript, Analysis: Mendez vs. Board of Education

Call Number: Reserve X4107P

NPR Podcast: Before 'Brown v. Board of Education' - In 1947 Orange County, Families Sued for Desegration -- and Won by Claudio Sanchez

California Historical Quarterly
Vol. LIII, Winter 1974 No. 4
Mendez v. Westminster: Race, Nationality and Segregation in California Schools
Call Number: Reserve X4116P

Knocking on the Schoolhouse Door: Mendez v. Westminster
La Raza Law Journal Vol. 8, No.2 Knocking on the
Schoolhouse Door: Mendez v. Westminster, Equal Protection, Public Education, and Mexican Americans in the 1940's

Call Number: Reserve X5211P

Ruiz Article
South by Southwest: Mexican Americans and Segregated Schooling, 1900-1950
Call Number: Reserve X4105P

Smiley Article
Commentary: Effect the Mendez v. Westminster Case From 1944 Had on the Brown v. Board of Education Case 10 Years Later
Call Number: Reserve X4108P

Sylvia Mendez Interview by Richard Meinemeyer

City of Santa Ana Public Library and CSUF Oral History Program - Interview conducted by Richard Meinemeyer from the CSUF Oral History Program

Call Number: Reserve X4110P (Page 6 and 26 missing)

Valencia Article
The Mexican American Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity in Mendez v Westminster: Helping Pave the Way for Brown v Board of Education

Call Number: Reserve X4106P