Wednesday, December 7, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Méndez v. Westminster: For All the Children / Para Todo los Niños
The Successful School Integration Suit That Preceded Brown
Please join us on Wednesday, December 7th  from 6:00-8:30 p.m. for film and Q&A with Sylvia Méndez and Juan Cartagena (President, Latino Justice PRLDEF) at Hunter College, Faculty Dining Room, West Building, 8th Floor.  Event is co-Sponsored with Latino Justice Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
Méndez v. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niñosis a 2003 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Sandra Robbie. The documentary discusses the little-known Orange County case that made California the first state in the nation to end school segregation – eight years prior to the famous U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

Sylvia Mendez is a nationally celebrated civil rights activist and recent recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor awarded by the President of the United States to a civilian.

Please call 212-396-6545 if you have any questions and you may RSVP to eventsat@hunter.cuny.edu

 

12.7.11- Film Screening: Méndez v. Westminster: For All the Children / Para Todo los Niños

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