We reviewed the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education case which ended the legal segregation of schools. We also noted that before Brown v. Board of Education, the family of a woman by the name of Sylvia Mendez fought against school segregation in California. In 1943, students of Mexican descent were not allowed to go to school with white students. Her case, Mendez v. Westminster ended segregation in California schools. We read that the case was argued by a lawyer named Thurgood Marshall, who was the same lawyer who argued Linda Brown's case in Brown v. Board of Education. Richard was encouraged to note the similarities in the two cases.