HOUSE PASSES GOMEZ BILL TO NAME LOS ANGELES U.S. COURTHOUSE AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS ICONS
May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024
WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California, issued the following news release on May 21, 2024:
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez's (CA-34) bipartisan legislation to name the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse after Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, American civil rights icons. The Mendez's activism to stop racial discrimination in California schools, alongside the Ramirez, Estrada, Guzman and Palomino families, culminated in the landmark 1 . . .
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez's (CA-34) bipartisan legislation to name the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse after Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, American civil rights icons. The Mendez's activism to stop racial discrimination in California schools, alongside the Ramirez, Estrada, Guzman and Palomino families, culminated in the landmark 1 . . .