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- Sylvia_Mendez abstract "Sylvia Mendez (born 1936) is an American civil rights activist of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage.At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement.Mendez grew up during a time when most southern and southwestern schools were segregated. In the case of California, Hispanics were not allowed to attend schools that were designated for "Whites" only and were sent to the so-called "Mexican schools." Mendez was denied enrollment to a "Whites" only school, an event which prompted her parents to take action and together organized various sectors of the Hispanic community who filed a lawsuit in the local federal court. The success of their action, of which Sylvia was the principal catalyst, would eventually bring to an end the era of segregated education. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, on February 15, 2011.".
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- Sylvia_Mendez wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sylvia Mendez".
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- Sylvia_Mendez birthDate "1936".
- Sylvia_Mendez birthPlace Santa_Ana,_California.
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- Sylvia_Mendez footnotes "Thurgood Marshall's amicus brief filed for Mendez on behalf of the NAACP contained the arguments he would later use in the Brown case.".
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