This looks at the life and work of Puerto Rican activist Felicas Mendez.
Personal
- Birth name: Felicitas Gómez
- Birthdate: February 5, 1916
- Birthplace: Juncos, Puerto Rico
- Died on: April 12, 1998 (aged 82)
- Death place: Fullerton, California
- Husband name: Gonzalo Mendez
- Children: Four sons: Victor, Gonzalo, Jerome, and Phillip; two daughters, Silvia Mendez and Sandra Duran
- Nationality: American
- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
- Known for: American civil rights pioneer, Puerto Rican activist
25 Interesting Facts about Felicitas Mendez
- Felicitas Mendez is a Puerto Rico woman who is a pioneer of American civil rights and business owners.
- His family moved to South California to work in the fields when he was 12 years old – where they were killed as “Mexico.”
- In 1936, Felicasas, Gonzalo Mendez, an immigrant from Mexico who had become a natural resident of the United States.
- Felicitas Mendez opened the bar and grill named La Prieta in Santa Ana with her husband Gonzalo Mendez.
- They have three children (Sylvia, Gonzalo Jr., and Jerome Mendez) and moved from Santa Ana to Westminster and rented a 40-hectare asparagus farm from Munemitsus, a Japanese-American family that had been sent to the Internendation Camp during World War II.
- Three children Felicitas Mendez went to Hoover Elementary, a two-room wooden hut in the neighborhood of Mexico, along with various Hispanics.
- In 1943, when his daughter Sylvia Mendez was only eight years old, he left with his aunt Sally Vidaurri, his brothers and cousins to enroll in the 17th road elementary school.
- Felicitas Mendez and her husband Gonzalo took their own tasks to lead a community battle that would develop the California Public Education System and set a legal reference point for segregation settlement in the United States.
- On March 2, 1945, he and four other Mexican-American fathers from Gomez, Palomino, Estrada, and the Ramirez family recorded claims in government courts in Los Angeles against the four Orange County school districts – Westminster, Garden Ana, and El Modena (at present East orange) – For about 5,000 Hispanic-American school children.
- On February 18, 1946, Judge Paul J. McCormick decided to Mendez and his co-plainiffs.
- More than a year later, on April 14, 1947, the Ninth Circuit High Court certified the decision of the District Court for the Mexican-American family.
- Children Felicasses Mendez was finally allowed to go to the 17th road elementary school, hence get one of the first Hispanics to go to a white school in California.
- Mendez v. Westminster set a critical reference point to complete separation in the United States.
- Gonzalo Mendez was forwarded in 1964 at the age of 51, not aware of the great long-term impact that Mendez v. Westminster will eventually have on A.S.
- On Sunday, April 12, 1998, Felicitas Mendez died of a heart failure in his little girl’s house in Fullerton, California.
- Mendez’s achievement v. Westminster Case made California the first country in this country to end the separation at school.
- This is prepared for Brown v. The education council is better known seven years after the fact, which will stop the separation of schools throughout the nation.
- Sandra Robbie compiled and created Documentary Mendez v. Westminster: For all children / Todos Los Ninos, which appeared in Koce-TV in Orange County on September 24, 2002, as a feature of their Hispanic heritage month celebration.
- In 1998, Santa Ana District, California respected Mendez’s family by naming another school “Gonzalo and Felicaas Mendez Fundamental Intermediate School”.
- In 2004, Sylvia Mendez was welcomed to the White House for the Hispanic Hispanic Heritage National Celebration.
- On April 14, 2007, The Postal Service A.S. Express stamps respect the case of Mendez v. Westminster.
- On September 9, 2009, a second named school was opened at Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. “Felicaas and Gonzalo Mendez learning center” is a double school campus that celebrates Mendez and family efforts that are different from the Westminster case.
- In September 2011, an exhibition, known as the “Act Class” was sponsored by the Museum of Teaching and Learning, regarding Mendez V. Westminster Case was introduced at the High Court Museum in Santa Ana.
- Sylvia Mendez retired after working for thirty years as a nurse. On February 15, 2011, President Obama gave him a medal of president freedom. In 2012, Brookly
