Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
2014
LC214.2 .T66 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
ISBN
9781419710544 hardcover
1419710540 hardcover
1419710540 hardcover
Published
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Call Number
LC214.2 .T66 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
379.2/63
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index.
Awards
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor, 2015 ; Robert F. Sibert Honor, 2015 ; Orbis Pictus Honor, 2015 ; Jane Addams Award, 2015.
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