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In 1945, Sylvia Mendez was denied entry to the all-white Westminster Elementary School because of her Mexican heritage. Mendez filed a lawsuit and won, ending segregation of Mexican-American students in the Westminster school district. Read #HERstory: https://t.co/WP8W5UsYqN https://t.co/E0XBOssBZD — PolitiTweet.org