Format:
Book
Author:
Tonatiuh, Duncan.
Title:
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Description:
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Other Title:
Beehive informational book award nominee, 2015-2016.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 39 ) and index.
LCCN:
2013032089
ISBN:
9781419710544
1419710540
Other Number:
861335171
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
410300
Call Number:
j 379.263 Tonatiuh
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
3
# System items in:
3