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Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños
Directed by	Sandra Robbie
Produced by	Executive Producers: Maria-Hall Brown Ed Miskevich Producer: Sandra Robbie
Written by	Michael Matsuda Sandra Robbie
Narrated by	Sandra Robbie
Starring	Sylvia Mendez
Editing by	Harold Elyea
Release date(s)	2002
Running time	30 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Official website

Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños (2002) is a American documentary directed by NAME and written and produced by Sandra Robbie. The film features Sylvia Mendez, Robert L. Carter, and others.^[1]

1 Synopsis
2 Background
3 Interviews
4 References
- 4.1 Bibliography
- 4.2 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Synopsis

In the mid-1940s, a tenant farmer named Gonzalo Mendez moved his family to the predominantly white Westminster district in Orange County and his children were denied admission to the public school on Seventeenth Street. The Mendez family move was prompted by the opportunity to lease a 60-acre farm in Westminster from the Munemitsus, a Japanese family who had been "relocated" to a Japanese internment camp during World War II. The income the Mendez family earned from the farm enabled them to hire attorney David Marcus and pursue litigation.

In 1945, the plaintiffs of Mendez, Palomino, Estrada, Guzman and Ramirez filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of 5,000 Mexican American children to integrate the schools in four Orange County school districts: Westminster,El Modena, Santa Ana, and Garden Grove. However, unlike Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which focused on racial discrimination and upheld the constitutionality of segregation based on race in public accommodations under the doctrine of "separate but equal," the plaintiffs in Mendez v. Westminster argued that the students were segregated into separate schools based solely on their national origin.

[edit] Background

Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños reveals the little-known Orange County case that made California the first state in the nation to end school segregation – seven years before Brown v. Board of Education. Among many surprises, NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall and then-California Governor Earl Warren played key roles in both cases. The U.S. Postal Service commemorated Mendez on a postage stamp in September 2007.

[edit] Interviews

Sylvia Mendez
Robert L. Carter
Ari Munemitsu Nakauchi
Gilbert Gonzalez, Professor, UC Irvine
Christopher Arriola, President, California La Raza Lawyers Association
Genevieve Barrios Southgate, daughter of Cruz Barrios
Ruth Barrios
Ralph Perez, El Modena parent
Lloyd Jones, Assistant Superintendent, Garden Grove Unified School District (retired)
Jerome Mendez
Janice Munemitsu
Frederick P. Aguirre, Superior Court, County of Orange
Felicitas Mendez

[edit] References

[edit] Bibliography

(2005) Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities, Editors Eric Margolis and Mary Romero, Blackwell Companions to Sociology. Blackwell Publishing.

Gonzalez, Gilbert G. (1994). Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950. University of Illinois Press.