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Book

Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's flight for desegregation

Call Number

  • J 379.263 TONA (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.

Physical Description

40 pages : color illustrations ;c29 cm

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"--

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