Want to know more about the landmark school segregation case addressed by today’s guest speaker Judge Rick Aguirre? Check out Mendez v. Westminster: School desegregation and Mexican-American rights. Strum “provides a clear, cogent, and concise examination of the case, the major players involved, and the decision’s influence in educational law and civil rights jurisprudence.”1
By the way, this 2010 title is from the University of Kansas’s award-winning “Landmark Law Cases and American Society” series. Over 40 additional titles from this series are available at UC Irvine Libraries – you can browse the list on ANTPAC.
Philippa Strum, Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights. (Univ. Press of Kansas) 186 pages.
Langson Library – KF4155 .S77 2010.
Check Melvyl to see if it’s on the shelf at Langson, or to request an ILL from another UC library.
1 René Luis Alvarez, Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights by Philippa Strum, 51 Hist. of Educ. Q. 138 (2011) (book review).