Format:
Book
Title:
Mendez v. Westminster : school desegregation and Mexican-American rights / Philippa Strum.
Author:
Strum, Philippa.
Call Number:
C344.730798 S927me 2010
Publisher, Date:
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2010.
Description:
xiii, 186 p. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Landmark law cases & American society
Landmark law cases & American society.
Subjects:
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Mexican Americans -- Education -- United States.
Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- California -- Orange County.
Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- California -- Orange County.
MeĢndez, Gonzalo.
Westminster School District (Orange County, Calif.)
Other Title:
Mendez versus Westminster
Contents:
Mexican-Americans in California -- From Lemon Grove to the zoot suit riots -- The parents decide to sue -- Race, ethnicity, and trial strategies -- The trial begins -- "We always tell our children they are Americans" -- The experts testify -- Judge McCormick decides -- From the Court of Appeals to the state legislature.
ISBN:
9780700617197 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700617191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780700617180 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617183 (cloth : alk. paper)