Mobilizing Culture, Language, and Educational Practices: Fulfilling the Promises of Mendez and Brown
Luis C. Moll, Professor in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona College of Education, recounts the circumstances of the 1946 California court case Mendez v. Westminster, which led to desegregation of California’s public schools and presaged Brown v. Board of Education. Sylvia Mendez, whose family undertook a legal challenge to secure her entrance into the Westminster school, was a special guest of AERA for the Lecture.