Tonatiuh, Duncan

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"-

870 Lexile



Pura Belpré Illustration Honor Book, 2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, 2015

9781419710544


Mendez, Sylvia
Mendez, Sylvia

LC214.2 / .T66 2014

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