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Tonatiuh, Duncan.

Separate is never equal : the story of Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / by Duncan Tonatiuh. - 40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index.

"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"--

ISBN: 9781419710544 (hardback)

LCCN: 2013032089

Subjects--Personal Names:
Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- --Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
School integration--United States--Juvenile literature.
Hispanic Americans--Education--Juvenile literature.
Hispanic Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century--Juvenile literature.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism.

LC Class. No.: LC214.2 / .T66 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 379.2/63