Mendez v. Westminster (1945), was a desegregation case for Mexican Americans in California, and ruled that segregating Mexican and Latino children was unconstitutional. The case was between Gonzales Mendez and the staff of Westminster school. Gonzales Mendez had enrolled three of his children into Westminster in Santa Ana, California. Everything had been going well until the day all of his children were sent home and told to transfer to Hoover school in another district because of their ethnic backgrounds. Mr. Mendez was outraged and complained to the principal of Westminster, School Board, and even the Orange County School Board. He eventually filed a lawsuit, due to the segregation being displayed in schools, against four different school
