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Title:
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
Author:
Tonatiuh, Duncan.
Publication Information:
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Call Number:
BIO LC214.2.T66 2014
Abstract:
"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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 5.1.
ISBN:
9781419710544

9780605847804
Physical Description:
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Subject Term:
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.

School integration -- United States.

Hispanic Americans -- Education.

Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Personal Subject:
Mendez, Sylvia, 1936--Childhood and youth-Juvenile literature.

Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-
Personal Author:
Tonatiuh, Duncan.
Subject:
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.

School integration -- United States.

Hispanic Americans -- Education.

Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.

Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-

Juvenile.

Children's literature.

Children's literature -- Hispanic American.
Award Note:
Tomas Rivera Award Book 2015.

Robert F. Sibert Honor Book 2015.

Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration, 2015.

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor, 2015 ; Robert F. Sibert Honor, 2015 ; Orbis Pictus Honor, 2015
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