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Title:
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
Author:
Tonatiuh, Duncan.
Personal Author:
Tonatiuh, Duncan.
Publication Information:
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Physical Description:
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Series:
EQTYSOCIAL
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"--
Language:
English
Reading Level:
Elementary Grade.

870 Lexile.

AD 870 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 5.1.

Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.1 0.5 164558.
Personal Subject:
Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -Childhood and youth-Juvenile literature.

Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -Juvenile literature.
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. -- Juvenile literature.

Hispanic Americans -- Education. -- Juvenile literature.

Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights. -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century. -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781419710544
Format :
Book

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