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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]

Author/Creator:

Tonatiuh, Duncan , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Separate is never equal: Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation [by Tonatiuh, D.]

Subjects:

Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- — Childhood and youth — 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

Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-

1900-1999

Hispanic Americans — Education

Hispanic Americans

Hispanic Americans — Civil rights

Civil rights movements

School integration

United States

Genres:

History

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index.
Accelerated Reader 5.1.
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor, 2015 ; Robert F. Sibert Honor, 2015 ; Orbis Pictus Honor, 2015

Audience:

Children

Physical Description:

40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

J379.2 T663se

ISBNs:

9781419710544 (hardback)
1419710540 (hardback)
9780605847804 (permabound)
0605847800 (permabound)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013032089

OCLC Numbers:

861335171