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Sylvia Mendez

American activist · United States · On the map · Activists · Born 1923 · age 103

Sylvia Mendez is an American civil rights activist and retired nurse. At the age of ten, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California.

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Born 1923 · age 103