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Felicitas Mendez
Puerto Rican activist · United States · On the map · Activists · Lived 1916 to 1998 · aged 82
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.
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Their landmark desegregation case, known as Mendez v. Westminster, paved the way for meaningful integration and public-school reform.
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