Tonatiuh, Duncan.

Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation Duncan Tonatiuh. - New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014. - 40 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39) and index.

School Library Journal starred, May 2014 Publisher's Weekly, March 2014 Booklist, May 2014 Kirkus Starred, June 2014 Horn Book, October 2014 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2014 Christian Library, September 2015

"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.

4.7. K-3 Follett School Solutions.



Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2015 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award/Honors, 2015

9781419710544

2013032089


Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-


School integration--United States.
Hispanic Americans--Education.
Hispanic Americans--Civil rights.
Civil rights movements--History.


Picture books for children.

LC214.2 / .T66 2014

379.2/63