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Date: September 18, 2006
On Sunday, September 10, 2006, the documentary Para Todos Los Niños: For All the Children was shown at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site. The documentary detailed the 1946 California case, Mendez v. Westminster, which ended segregation for Mexican American students.
Elias Garcia, from the Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission, moderated a panel discussion of the case for the approximately 75 people who attended the event. Also on the panel were: Sylvia Mendez, daughter of the case namesake; Sandra Robbie, producer of the documentary; and Ruben Flores, American studies professor at the University of Kansas.
Click here for the full article from The Topeka Capital-Journal.
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