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Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.

Tonatiuh, Duncan, (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781419710544
  • ISBN: 1419710540
  • Physical Description: 40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target Audience Note:
AD870L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.1 0.5 164558.
Subject: Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature.
School integration > United States > Juvenile literature.
Hispanic Americans > Education > Juvenile literature.
Hispanic Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Genre: Biographies.
Illustrated works.
Picture books.

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  • 41 of 44 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Old Fort Branch Library JUV 379.2 TON (Text) 37810434995303 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -