The Mendez Historic Freedom Trail and Monument opened on December 1, 2022 at 7371 Westminster Boulevard, in Westminster California. It tells the story of what happened, in early 1944, when Sylvia Mendez and her brothers Gonzalo Jr. and Jerome, tried to start attending school the Westminster 17th Street School. Sylvia Mendez and her family had recently moved to Westminster and lived close by the school, but were turned away and were redirected to go to a "Mexican school."
