mendez v. westminster

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) is the famous Supreme Court case that led to the nationwide desegregation of schools, and spurred the civil rights movement.

Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County (1947), another Supreme Court case, desegregated public schools in California and gave access to children of Mexican descent. It's a far less known case, but it actually proceeded Brown v. Board of Education.

Race politics in the US are often black and white. What has been happening to and with other groups is unknown, even if the events at the time were groundbreaking.