# Felicitas Mendez

> Felicitas Gómez Martínez de Méndez was a Puerto Rican activist in the American civil rights movement. In 1946, Méndez and her husband, Gonzalo, led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States. Their landmark desegregation case, known as Mendez v. Westminster, paved the way for meaningful integration and public-school reform.

*Puerto Rican activist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/felicitas-mendez

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1916-02-05
- **Died:** 1998-04-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Felicitas Gómez Martínez de Méndez was a Puerto Rican activist in the American civil rights movement. In 1946, Méndez and her husband, Gonzalo, led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States. Their landmark desegregation case, known as Mendez v. Westminster, paved the way for meaningful integration and public-school reform.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 41.3
- **Momentum:** 11.5

## Sources
- [Felicitas Méndez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas_M%C3%A9ndez)
- [Felicitas Méndez](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas_M%C3%A9ndez)
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- [菲利西塔·门德斯](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%B2%E5%88%A9%E8%A5%BF%E5%A1%94%C2%B7%E9%97%A8%E5%BE%B7%E6%96%AF)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16014128)

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