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After the Mexican-American war the anti latino sentiment became more powerful. Overall latinos were lynched, mobbed, and murdered over the years.

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Mendez v Westminster effectively ended segregation against Latinos in the state of California. The case has left a legacy aiming to teach the importance of equality to the youth of future generations. How’s ever it serves as a reminder of the work that must be continued as schools in higher income communities are predominantly white schools in lower income communities continue to be majority Latino and Black students.

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The Zoot Suit was a type of suit mainly worn by proffesionals and service men before the war. Once the Second world war began clothing fabric was rationed. Bootleg tailor continued to produce zoot suits and the style was adopted by the Mexican-American youth of L.A. Mexican-Americans wearing the style were soon labled unpatriotic and as delinquents or 'pachucos', gang related juveniles. During June of 1943 White Americans, service men went around the streets of L.A in the night weilding clubs and bats. They attacked and beat innocent youth. One sailor was also killed in the riots. Up to 400 people were arrested almost all of them were latinos. Throughout the 10 nights of the riots the newspapers reported the victims as responsible for the riots rather than the attackers.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latino-school-segregation_n_561d70a5e4b050c6c4a34118
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-zoot-suit-riots-anniversary-20180604-story.html
https://www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation
https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/21/79101/the-end-of-mexican-schools-how-latino-families-in/

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During the Great depression the U.S performed a large mass deportation of Latino people, the Mexican Repatriation. Latinos were swept into cars by American officers and deported to Mexico regardless of their nationality, citizenship, or immigration status.
In the 1950's the U.S performed the largest mass deportation in American history. Up to 1.3 million people were deported. It was called Operation Wetback.

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Education wise Latino people were segregated and shuffled into Mexican schools. They were small, dirty, and lacked proper resources. Latino and Hispanic students were segregated on the basis on not knowing English and their 'poor hygene'.

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Mendez v Westminster was a landmark case that brouhgt an end to segregation in the state of Califronia.

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The parents of 9 year old Sylvia, Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, along with several other latino families, took four Orange County School Districts to court protesting the segregation of Latinos in White schools.

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When Sylvia Mendez's aunt took her and her cousins to register for school they were met with opposition. The children who were half Mexican and of lighter complexion, with a French last name were allowed to register. But Sylvia, who was of a darker complexion with a Latino last name was turned away and encouraged to attend the Mexican school 5 blocks away.

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Gonzalo Mendez was furious and hired a civil rights attorney and took 4 Orange County School Districts. His attorney used an unusual approach stating that the segregation caused an inferiority complex in the Mexican American populatio which in turn made them less productive members of society. The case made it all the way to the 9th Circuit Court. On March 2nd 1947, 7 years before Brown v Board of Education, the judge ruled against the segregation of the school districts. The districts lost their appeals and soon afterward all schools in California desegregated.

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Mendez v Westminster set the stage for Brown v Board of Education, the case that ended segregation of all public schools.