Guide to the Mendez v. Westminster : research materials,
1879-1995
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Guide to the Mendez v. Westminster : research materials,
1879-1995
Collection number: M0938
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.edu
- URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 1997
- Encoded by:
- C. Del Anderson
© 1998 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Mendez v. Westminster : research materials,
Date (inclusive): 1879-1995
Collection number: Special Collections M0938
Creator:
Arriola, Christopher J.
Extent:
2 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
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 terms
Danker, 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 List
Box 1, Folder 1
Christopher 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
1995
Box 1, Folder 2
Christopher Arriola. "Silent segregation; the history of Mexican-American school segregation in El Modena, Calif.," Senior
Honors Thesis
1992
Box 1, Folder 3
Christopher 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).
1994
Box 1, Folder 4
El 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.
1991
Box 1, Folder 5
Case reports (copies)
1895 - 1953
Box 1, Folder 7
Simon Ludwig Treff. "The Education of Mexican Children in Orange County," Masters thesis.
1934
Box 1, Folder 8
Mary Lisbeth Haas. "THe Barrios of Santa Ana; community, class, and urbanization, 1850-1947, " Ph.D. dissertation (photocopy)
1985
Box 1, Folder 9
Gilbert G. Gonzalez."Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation," Philadelphia; THe Balch Institute Press
1990
Box 2, Folder `1
Mendez briefs. Binder with Arriola's notes, etc.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 2
El Modena school segregation newspaper articles (Orange Daily News and others), (copies in binder)
1936-1945
Box 2, Folder 3
El Modena school segregation. Court transcripts. (Mendez v. Westminster) Binder
Box 3, Folder 1
El Modena school segregation documents (photocopies from various libraries).
Box 3, Folder 2
Interviews. (Arriola's annotated copies of transcripts - copies in box 1)
1991
Box 3, Folder 3
Seven audio tapes (transcripts in box 1)
1895 - 1953
Box 4, Folder 1
Orange Unified School District documents
Box 4, Folder 2
Shepard's/ALR annotations
Box 4, Folder 4
Maps: municipal and zoning
Box 4, Folder 5-12
Mendez, Court appellate briefs & transcript of record (northern district)
Box 4, Folder 13
Indices of oral histories by topic
Box 4, Folder 14
Oral histories/CSU Fullerton/Orange interviews
Box 4, Folder 15
Mendez court documents & filings (southern district)
Box 4, Folder 16
Journal articles/McWilliams & Cook
Box 4, Folder 17
Mendez v. Westminster court documnets.
1945-1947
Box 4, Folder 18
Harvard Law Review articles
Box 4, Folder 20
El Modena School Board minutes, (photocopies)
1943 - 1953
Box 4, Folder 21
El Modena School. Teacher's Register, (photocopies)
1913 - 1919
Box 4, Folder 22
Orange County Department of Education statistics, (photocopies)
1860 - 1949
