Separate Is Never Equal

Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

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40 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-4197-1054-4
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OCLC Number:
861335171

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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,

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Subjects

  • JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century
  • JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
  • Civil rights
  • Hispanic Americans
  • School integration
  • Civil rights movements
  • JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
  • Education
  • Juvenile literature
  • Childhood and youth
  • History

Places

  • United States