Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
(2014)
By:
Tonatiuh, Duncan
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/379.263/TONATIUH,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014
DESCRIPTION
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781419710544, 1419710540 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2015 Belpre Illustrator Honor Book Award
"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"--
Winner of the 2015 Robert F.Sibert Informational Honor Book Award
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