Description
Instructions: Watch the video and read the articles. Answer ALL the questions. Simply copy and paste the questions and write at least 4-5 sentences in response to each question. All answers must be written in your own words. Do not cut and paste text from books or websites.
Questions:
- What is the significance of this case in the context of the struggle for civil rights?
- Why is segregation harmful? What arguments were presented in court?
- What's wrong with the "separate but equal doctrine"?
- What did Mendez v. Westminster accomplish? What did it fail to do?
- In what ways did school segregation violate the 14th Amendment?
- Why are schools in California among the most segregated in the nation today?
- What's the connection between this case and Brown v. Board of Education

Explanation & Answer

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Outline for Mendez v. Westminster Case
1.
What is the significance of this case in the context of the struggle for civil rights?
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The civil rights movement tended to provide the minority races with a voice and exist
under equal protection by the law.
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The struggle for civil rights treated the case as a significant achievement and gave the
activist a purpose to attain equality by abolishing racial segregation.
2.
Why is segregation harmful? What arguments were presented in court?
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Segregation, especially among students, provides them with negative factors in the
learning process.
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Segregation affects an individual's ability to grasp knowledge due to the social isolation
and negative perception involved.
3.
What's wrong with the "separate but equal doctrine"?
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The separate but equal doctrine created room for the white supremacists to have the
excuse of discriminating against the minority races, including the African Americans and
the Latinos.
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Under the doctrine, the Latinos, among other minority races, received low services
compared to the whites.
4.
What did Mendez v. Westminster accomplish? What did it fail to do?
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The case aided minority races to achieve equal educational opportunities for Latino
students whereby the students could join school without bias.
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The case, therefore, can get termed as to have not completely solved the discrimination
problem in public schools.
5.
In what ways did school segregation violate the 14th amendment?
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Segregation in public schools fail...
