How O.C. parents laid the groundwork for school desegregation in the U.S.

As a child, Sylvia Mendez thought her parents’ court case was all about a playground.

That’s because in 1944, the bus would drop her off at the white school with the “beautiful playground.” But she would have to keep walking down the street to the Mexican school — two wooden shacks on a dirt lot next to a cow pasture.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.