Guide to the Mendez v. Westminster : research materials, 1879-1995 M0938
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Mendez v. Westminster : research materials
Creator:
Arriola, Christopher
Identifier/Call Number: M0938
Identifier/Call Number: 825
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1879-2007
Scope and Contents
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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item] Mendez v. Westminster : research materials, M0938, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Provenance
Gift of Christopher J. Arriola, 1997
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Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital
materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mexican Americans -- Education.
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Discrimination in education -- Orange County -- History.
Westminster School District (Orange County, Calif.)
Educational law and legislation -- Orange County.
Danker, Esther.
Gobbel, J.D.
Danker, Ralph.
Gomez, Daniel.
Gobbel, Marge.
Haas, Mary Lisbeth.
Gonzalez, Gilbert G.
Mendez, Gonzalo--Trials, litig
Quintana, Annie.
Rodriguez, Vince.
Torres, Bob.
Treff, Simon Ludwig.
Valenci, Oscar.
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
284317
1995
box 1, folder 2
Christopher Arriola. "Silent segregation; the history of Mexican-American school segregation in El Modena, Calif.," Senior
Honors Thesis
284315
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).
284313
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.
284311
1991
box 1, folder 5
Case reports (copies) 284309
1895 - 1953
box 1, folder 6
Case abstracts 284307
1879-1973
box 1, folder 7
Simon Ludwig Treff. "The Education of Mexican Children in Orange County," Masters thesis. 284305
1934
box 1, folder 8
Mary Lisbeth Haas. "THe Barrios of Santa Ana; community, class, and urbanization, 1850-1947, " Ph.D. dissertation (photocopy) 284303
1985
box 1, folder 9
Gilbert G. Gonzalez."Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation," Philadelphia; THe Balch Institute Press 284301
1990
box 2, folder `1
Mendez briefs. Binder with Arriola's notes, etc. 284299
undated
box 2, folder 2
El Modena school segregation newspaper articles (Orange Daily News and others), (copies in binder) 284297
1936-1945
box 2, folder 3
El Modena school segregation. Court transcripts. (Mendez v. Westminster) Binder 284295
box 3, folder 1
El Modena school segregation documents (photocopies from various libraries). 284293
box 3, folder 2
Interviews. (Arriola's annotated copies of transcripts - copies in box 1) 284291
1991
box 3, folder 3
Seven audio tapes (transcripts in box 1) 284289
1895 - 1953
box 4, folder 1
Orange Unified School District documents 284287
box 4, folder 2
Shepard's/ALR annotations 284285
box 4, folder 3
Articles/contemporary 284283
box 4, folder 4
Maps: municipal and zoning 284281
box 4, folder 5-12
Mendez, Court appellate briefs & transcript of record (northern district) 284279
box 4, folder 13
Indices of oral histories by topic 284277
box 4, folder 14
Oral histories/CSU Fullerton/Orange interviews 284275
box 4, folder 15
Mendez court documents & filings (southern district) 284273
box 4, folder 16
Journal articles/McWilliams & Cook 284271
box 4, folder 17
Mendez v. Westminster court documnets. 284269
1945-1947
box 4, folder 18
Harvard Law Review articles 284267
box 4, folder 20
El Modena School Board minutes, (photocopies) 284263
1943 - 1953
box 4, folder 21
El Modena School. Teacher's Register, (photocopies) 284261
1913 - 1919
box 4, folder 22
Orange County Department of Education statistics, (photocopies) 284259
1860 - 1949
Box 5, Folder 1
Trial transcript (July 5-6, 1945)
Box 5, Folder 2
Trial transcript (July 9-11, 1945)
Box 5, Folder 3
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 5, Folder 4
Two items: Christopher Arriota. "A landmark little noted - until today", Los Angeles Times, Monday, April 14, 1997. Information
about Mendez v. Westminster stamp
1997-2007
Box 5, Folder 5
Information about La Purisima Mission
