Civil Rights Research Paper
Background Information
Gonzalo Mendez was born in Mexico, 1913. At the age of 30, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His mother and his four siblings moved to Westminster, California in 1919. As time time passed he had children and his family still lived in Westminster, California. In Westminster, there was only one other Mexican-American family. Most of the neighborhood was Anglos, and their kids went to Westminster Main School (Mendez). The day came when Gonzalo Mendez was going to sign up his kids at Westminster Main School, a school that he attended as a child (Garfield). To his surprise, his kids were sent back and they were told that they had to attend Hoover School, which was located in …show more content…
Westminster is related to is Martin Luther King’s Pilgrimage to Nonviolence. The document from Dr. Martin Luther King states the requirements for nonviolent protest (King). Mendez followed these steps even though the case happened before Pilgrimage to Nonviolence was published. Mendez maintained peace throughout the case (Oyez). He instead found political methods to try to end segregation in California schools. First, he tried to talk with the principal of Westminster Main School, then moving up to the Westminster School Board and eventually the Orange County School Board. In the end, he had no success (Oyez). Finally, the case was taken to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Within two months, racial segregation in California schools was over (Oyez). The way that the Mendez v. Westminster played out would have been exactly how Martin Luther King would have wanted it to have happened. The reason is because no one was physically hurt in the process of the case, Mendez didn 't bring the case to the supreme court in an effort to try to humiliate his opponent he just wanted equal learning facilities for all children, and the most important item was that no violence
Background Information
Gonzalo Mendez was born in Mexico, 1913. At the age of 30, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His mother and his four siblings moved to Westminster, California in 1919. As time time passed he had children and his family still lived in Westminster, California. In Westminster, there was only one other Mexican-American family. Most of the neighborhood was Anglos, and their kids went to Westminster Main School (Mendez). The day came when Gonzalo Mendez was going to sign up his kids at Westminster Main School, a school that he attended as a child (Garfield). To his surprise, his kids were sent back and they were told that they had to attend Hoover School, which was located in …show more content…
Westminster is related to is Martin Luther King’s Pilgrimage to Nonviolence. The document from Dr. Martin Luther King states the requirements for nonviolent protest (King). Mendez followed these steps even though the case happened before Pilgrimage to Nonviolence was published. Mendez maintained peace throughout the case (Oyez). He instead found political methods to try to end segregation in California schools. First, he tried to talk with the principal of Westminster Main School, then moving up to the Westminster School Board and eventually the Orange County School Board. In the end, he had no success (Oyez). Finally, the case was taken to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Within two months, racial segregation in California schools was over (Oyez). The way that the Mendez v. Westminster played out would have been exactly how Martin Luther King would have wanted it to have happened. The reason is because no one was physically hurt in the process of the case, Mendez didn 't bring the case to the supreme court in an effort to try to humiliate his opponent he just wanted equal learning facilities for all children, and the most important item was that no violence