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WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, September 30, at 2 p.m., the National Archives and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation present a panel discussion of Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark 1946 ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, which prohibited segregation in California's public schools. A special screening of the 2003 PBS documentary Mendez vs. Westminster: For All The Children/Para Todos los Ninos will follow the discussion.

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Moderated by Jose Antonio Tijerino, president and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, panelists scheduled to appear are Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Rep. Raul Grijalva, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Task Force on Education; Jan Harp Domene, president of the National Parent Teacher Association; Silvia Mendez, who played an instrumental role in the Mendez case; and Eutiquio Chapa, recipient of the Hispanic Youth Award for Education. A screening of the 2003 PBS documentary Mendez vs. Westminster: For All The Children/Para Todos los Ninos will follow the discussion, introduced by its writer and producer Sandra Robbie.

The program is free and open to the public, and will be held in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building, located at Constitution and 7th St., NW. Metro accessible on the Yellow and Green lines, Archives/Navy Memorial/Penn Quarter station.

For more information on National Archives programs, the public should call the Public Programs Line at: (202) 357-5000, or view the Calendar of Events on the web at: http://www.archives.gov/calendar/.

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