Separate is never equal
Subtitle: the story of Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
By: by Duncan Tonatiuh
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781419710544
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
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" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and Internet websites (page 39), and index.

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