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Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation

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2014

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Title:	Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
Author:	Tonatiuh, Duncan author, illustrator.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Description:	40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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.
Subjects:	Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature. Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth. 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. Racism against Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile literature. School integration -- United States. Hispanic Americans -- Education. Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Palatine (Ill.) -- Anti-racism picture books.
Other Title:	Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
Reading Level:	Accelerated Reader 5.1.
ISBN	9781419710544

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