Brown v. Board
The end of segregation came at the conclusion of Brown v. Board of Education when the Supreme Court declared any form of discrimination in education unconstitutional. Several of the case's ideas and concepts originated from the Mendez case. Earl Warren, the governor of California, signed the law that prohibited any segregation in California's education codes after Mendez v. Westminster. He later became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for Brown v. Board. Thurgood Marshall, who was involved in the NAACP in support of Mendez's cause, was Brown's attorney and used much of the same reasoning from Mendez v. Westminster. Although Mendez isn't recognized as well as Brown, he has had a tremendous impact on the outcome of desegregation in America.
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