10/31/2024
Here's a special event I had the privilege of attending Oct. 29 for the special Celebration of the passage of Assembly Bill 1805. Assembly Member Tri Ta lead the effort in partnership with Senator tom Umberg, Coastline Community College District, members of the Mendez family, the original school districts and other members of the legislature.
AB1805 allows for the inclusion of curriculum materials in California schools on the historic court Case Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al. (1946).
The case lwas brought by the Estrada, Guzman, Palomino, Ramirez, and Mendez families against the school districts of El Modena, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Westminster in 1945 to challenge the practice of school segregation in Orange County. The Ninth Court of Appeals' subsequent ruling upheld the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and strengthened the argument for Brown V. Education which would be heard in 1954.