Title: Separate is never equal
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, 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, grade:max:4, JUVENILE NONFICTION, 20th Century, People & Places, Hispanic & Latino, Social Issues, Prejudice & Racism
Places: United States
People: Sylvia Mendez (1936-)
Time periods: 20th century