Google Doodle celebrates Puerto Rican activist Felicitas Mendez in the American civil rights movement on the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month 2020 in the US on September 15, 2020.
Who was Felicitas Mendez?
Felicitas Gómez Martínez de Méndez was born as a gómez felicity in the city of Juncos in Puerto Rico on February 5, 1916. In February 1916. In 1946, Mendez and her husband led the battle of Civil Rights Education that changed California and set a legitimate reference point for finishing , De Jure segregation in the United States. Case of integration of their milestone, known as Mendez v. Westminster, prepared for important reconciliation and changes in public schools.
The Gomez family moved from Puerto Rico. There they confront and depend on, the separation which then extends throughout the United States. Felicity and his brothers were moistened as “black.”
At the point when Felicacs Mendez is 12 years old, the family moves to South California to work in the fields – where they are given supizes as “Mexico.” In 1936, he stabbed Gonzalo Mendez, an immigrant from Mexico who had become a natural resident of the United States. They opened the bar and grill named La Prieta in Santa Ana. They have three children 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.
Although agriculture is an effective agricultural business, it has not become a historical period when racial discrimination against Hispanics, and a minority in general, far from the United States.
Felicity and her husband Gonzalo Mendez conquered this misery to run Cantina in Santa Ana, CA, and finally rented an effective asparagus farm in Westminster, CA. During the 1940s, schools in the United States were not isolated, with California having separate schools for “only white.” In Westminster explicitly, there are only two elementary schools, with Hispanic School, Hoover Elementary, especially lost with correlations with the SD campus.
To offer superior education of his children, Felicity and Gonzalo Mendez who were applied for the three children they were allowed to Seceventent Street Elementary, but were honored that their children’s skin was too dark and that the family name “Mendez” was too Hispanic.
Instead of justting the destiny of their families, Mendezes, along with four other Hispanic-American families, documenting the claim of Mendez v. Westminster for the interests of thousands of children in the zone. While her husband was busy dealing with everyday problems of this case, Felicitas Mendez with skilled dealing with family farming to ensure they could pay legitimately related fees.
After almost a year in court and one year of appeal, the family won their right to ask their children to be educated in the same schools with other children. After a short time, the law was legalized in California to ratify their school integration. Some arguments presented in the case of Mendez v. Westminster set up the foundation for Brown v. The Education Council ended the separation of schools in the United States.
In September 2011, an exhibition that respected Mendez v. Westminster case is served at the High Court Museum in Santa Ana. This display is known as “Act Class” sponsored by the Museum of Teaching and Learning. Sylvia Mendez is an individual of the Display Planning Committee with his brother, Gonzalo.
Sylvia Mendez retired after working for thirty years as a nurse. He traveled and studied about his historical contribution of his parents and co-plaited them to integrate the United States. On February 15, 2011, President Obama gave him a medal of president freedom. In 2012, Brooklyn College gave him a special degree.
Google Doodle Celebrating Felicitas Mendez
On September 15, 2020, Google Doodle praised Mendez’s felicity. Google Doodle described Felicasses Mendez happily when Gonzalo took their three children to the same schools with children from various races.
In making Google Doodle, Google was very contact with the family, including Felicias Mendez’s daughter, Sylvia, who brought its part of this achievement by becoming one of the first Hispanic-American students before “only white”. school.