The House passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday evening to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse in honor of a Latino family who paved the way for school desegregation.
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Teaching-credential candidates from Vanguard University visited Mendez Tribute Monument Park, where they had a chance to meet with education activist Sylvia Mendez.
Civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez's parents were among several Mexican American families who successfully challenged segregation in California schools in 1947 years before Brown v. Board of Education.