Title:
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
ISBN:
9781419710544
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Physical Description:
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Awards Note:
Honor book for the Pura Belpré Award, illustrator (2015)
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader LG 5.1 0.5 164558
Personal Subject:
Audience:
AD870L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn861335171
Availability:
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