USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The school boards decided against appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. Thus, the Mendez case ended as the first successful federal school desegregation decision in the nation. This decision shielded only children of Mexican ancestry from public school segregation in California under its current laws.

Detailed explanation-2: -U.S. District Court Judge Paul J. McCormick agreed with the plaintiffs and ordered that the school districts cease their “discriminatory practices against the pupils of Mexican descent in the public schools."

Detailed explanation-3: -Less well-known is the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster decision, which ended de jure segregation of Mexican-Americans in California-a group that had long been segregated into separate schools and classrooms throughout the Southwest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al (1946) is an historic court case on racial segregation in the California public school system.

Detailed explanation-5: -This article analyzes Mendez v. Westminster School District, a 1946 federal court case that ruled that separate but equal schools for Mexican American children in Orange County, California, was unconstitutional and that influenced the famous 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education.