Some Girls Fear the Fire. Some Girls Become It. - Journal

"Some Girls Fear the Fire. Some Girls Become It." Inspired by:  Sylvia Mendez: The Girl Who Took On Segregation... And Won 💪🔥 Imagine being just 8 years old and helping knock down racist school rules. That’s exactly what Sylvia Mendez did. ⚡️ Back in the 1940s, Sylvia and thousands of other Mexican-American kids in California were forced to go to separate, run-down schools just because of their heritage. 🚫✏️ Sylvia’s parents, Gonzalo and Felicitas, weren’t having it. They teamed up with other families and sued four school districts in a case called Mendez v. Westminster. ⚖️ The odds were stacked against them. Schools claimed Hispanic kids “couldn’t speak English.” 🙄 But Sylvia and other kids proved that was just an excuse to shut them out. Sylvia’s family and their community fought hard, and they won. 🏆 California had to desegregate its schools, paving the way for the whole country. On January 19, 1948, Sylvia and her siblings were finally allowed to attend the all-white 17th Street El