Separate is never equal Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
Duncan Tonatiuh
- 2014
- 40 pages color illustrations 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 39) , filmography (page 39) , and index
"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"-