Mendez v. Westminster : school desegregation and Mexican-American rights /
"Gives a full account of the legal issues and legacy of the landmark law case, which was the first case in which segregation in education was successfully challenged. By the author of Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights."--Provided by publisher.
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
©2010.
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| Series: | Landmark law cases & American society.
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Table of 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.
