Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
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TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014Description: 40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- volume
- 9781419710544
- 9781489851819
- 1419710540
- 148985181X
- Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
- Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-
- School integration -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans -- Education -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- School integration
- Hispanic Americans -- Education
- Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights
- Civil rights movements
- 379.2 TON 23
- LC214.2 .T66 2014
Includes bibliographical references (p. 39) and index.
School Library Journal starred, May 2014.
Publisher's Weekly, March 2014.
Booklist, May 2014.
Kirkus Starred, June 2014.
Horn Book, October 2014.
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2014.
Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California.
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