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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">Dear Colleague:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">The Women’s Resource Center cordially invites you and your associates to experience <b>Sylvia Mendez</b>. A Presidential
Medal of Freedom recipient, Mendez is a civil rights activist of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent. You might even remember. When Mendez was eight, her parents tried to enroll her in an all-white school in their community, but were denied entry and admonished
to head to the “school for Mexican children.” Humiliated and outraged, her father and other parents sued the Westminster School District, making the Mendez v. Westminster case a pivotal point in the civil rights movement against segregation and setting in
motion an archival chain of events that seven years later prompted Brown v. The Board of Education. On </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2C2C2C;background:white">November 2 from 4 - 5:30 p.m. at UC Riverside’s Highlander Union Building, room
302 North, </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">you can<b> </b>view the documentary covering Mendez and the historical case and, then,
<b>engage the pacesetter and her filmmaker </b>in a question and answer period. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2C2C2C;background:white">To</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white"> </span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">RSVP
by October 17</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">, please go to
</span><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#ED1C24;background:white"><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HSML7D2">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HSML7D2</a></span></u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">.<span style="color:#ED1C24"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">Should
you have any questions or need additional information, just visit <u><span style="color:#ED1C24"><a href="http://wrc.ucr.edu/Programs/The+Leadership+Community+for+Women+Initiative.htm">http://wrc.ucr.edu/Programs/The+Leadership+Community+for+Women+Initiative.htm</a></span></u>,
call <a href="tel:%28951%29%20827-3337" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">(951) 827-3337</span></a>, or email
<u><span style="color:#ED1C24"><a href="mailto:adrienne.sims@ucr.edu">adrienne.sims@ucr.edu</a></span></u><span style="color:#ED1C24">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">The Center particularly looks forward to your taking part and thanks you for your follow-through and support! </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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