An edition of Separate is never equal (2014)
Separate Is Never Equal
Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
By Duncan Tonatiuh
Publish Date
2014
Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
Language
eng
Pages
40
Description:
"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" --
subjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism, Civil rights, Hispanic Americans, School integration, Civil rights movements, JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino, Education, Juvenile literature, Childhood and youth, History, Segregation in education, Hispanic americans, Hispanic americans, juvenile literature, Civil rights movements, juvenile literature, award:Pura_Belpre_award, lexile:870, lexile_range:801-900, lexile_code:AD, age:min:6, age:max:10, grade:min:1
People: Sylvia Mendez (1936-)
Places: United States
Times: 20th century