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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word.. Date of source: 1997.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the Mendez v. Westminster : research materials, 1879-1995Collection number: M0938Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaContact InformationDepartment of Special CollectionsGreen LibraryStanford University LibrariesStanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.eduURL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/Special Collections staff1997C. Del Anderson

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Descriptive SummaryMendez v. Westminster : research materials, 1879-1995Special Collections M0938Arriola, Christopher J.2 linear ft.Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions

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Provenance

Gift of Christopher J. Arriola, 1997

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Mendez v. Westminster : research materials, M0938, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biography

Christopher Arriola is currently working for the Los Angeles District Attorney (1997). He received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1995, and his A.B. from Stanford University, in 1992. He was originally a graduate of El Modena High School.

Scope and Content

The study of a legal case involving public school discrimination in the Orange County town of El Modena. The case, Mendez v. Westminster, traveled from then rural Orange County, all the way to the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, where the court held that Mexican Americans could not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin. Arriola did a case study of Mexican school segregation in Orange County, in particular in El Modena, and legal analysis of the issues surrounding the Mendez case. Included are interviews, historical material, clippings, case abstracts, finished papers, etc.

Access termsDanker, Esther.Danker, Ralph.Gobbel, J.D.Gobbel, Marge.Gomez, Daniel.Gonzalez, Gilbert G.Haas, Mary Lisbeth.Mendez, Gonzalo--Trials, litigation, etc.Quintana, Annie.Rodriguez, Vince.Torres, Bob.Treff, Simon Ludwig.Valenci, Oscar.Westminster School District (Orange County, Calif.)Discrimination in education--Orange County--History.Educational law and legislation--Orange County.Mexican Americans--Education.Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.Container List11Christopher Arriola. "Knocking on the schoolhouse door: Mendez v. Westminster, equal protection, public education, and Mexican Americans in the 1940s," in La Raze Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 199512Christopher Arriola. "Silent segregation; the history of Mexican-American school segregation in El Modena, Calif.," Senior Honors Thesis 199213Christopher Arriola. "Mendez v. Westminster (1946); a research pathfinder to Chicano legal history with an emphasis on equal protection and Orange County, Calif.," typescript, (2 copies). 199414El Modena intervies, typescripts. (Audio tapes are in box 3). Includes Annie Quintana, Bob Torres, Daniel Gomez, Ralph and Esther Danker, Marge and JD Gobbel, Oscar Valencia, and Vince Rodriguez. 199115Case reports (copies) 1895 - 195316Case abstracts 1879-197317Simon Ludwig Treff. "The Education of Mexican Children in Orange County," Masters thesis. 193418Mary Lisbeth Haas. "THe Barrios of Santa Ana; community, class, and urbanization, 1850-1947, " Ph.D. dissertation (photocopy) 198519Gilbert G. Gonzalez."Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation," Philadelphia; THe Balch Institute Press 19902`1Mendez briefs. Binder with Arriola's notes, etc. n.d.22El Modena school segregation newspaper articles (Orange Daily News and others), (copies in binder) 1936-194523El Modena school segregation. Court transcripts. (Mendez v. Westminster) Binder 31El Modena school segregation documents (photocopies from various libraries). 32Interviews. (Arriola's annotated copies of transcripts - copies in box 1) 199133Seven audio tapes (transcripts in box 1) 1895 - 195341Orange Unified School District documents 42Shepard's/ALR annotations 43Articles/contemporary 44Maps: municipal and zoning 45-12Mendez, Court appellate briefs & transcript of record (northern district) 413Indices of oral histories by topic 414Oral histories/CSU Fullerton/Orange interviews 415Mendez court documents & filings (southern district) 416Journal articles/McWilliams & Cook 417Mendez v. Westminster court documnets. 1945-1947418Harvard Law Review articles 419Various articles 420El Modena School Board minutes, (photocopies) 1943 - 1953421El Modena School. Teacher's Register, (photocopies) 1913 - 1919422Orange County Department of Education statistics, (photocopies) 1860 - 1949