Brown v. Board of Education
Mendez v. Westminster had a huge impact on the Brown v. Board case. Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer from the NAACP represented both Sylvia Mendez and Linda Brown and had been attempting to banish the "separate but equal" motto that the previous "Plessy vs. Ferguson" had instituted. He felt that Mendez was just the case to do it, and later in Brown v. Board he used those same main arguments, such as segregation is unconstitutional and that by segregating all the children it was consequently harming them.
