TY - SOUND AU - Tonatiuh,Duncan AU - Sananes,Adriana TI - Separate is never equal: Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation T2 - Lessons for Racial Equity Curriculum title SN - 9781629238586 (sound recording) U1 - 379.0 TON PY - 2014/// CY - Holland PB - Dreamscape Media KW - Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-. KW - Mendez, Sylvia, 1936 KW - Juvenile Nonfiction KW - OverDrive KW - Education KW - School integration KW - School Integration KW - United States KW - Hispanic Americans KW - Civil Rights KW - Civil rights movements KW - History KW - 20th Century KW - Electronic books KW - local KW - SORA audiobook KW - csd N1 - Unabridged; SORA audiobook; Narrator: Adriana Sananes; AD870L; Lexile; K-3 N2 - Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a Whites only school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated education in California UR - http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=310165&titleID=1741589 ER -