Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.

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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 inCalifornia"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Main Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan
Language:English
Published: New York : Harry N Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Series:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:
Mendez, Sylvia, > 1936- > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Hispanic Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile literature.
Hispanic Americans > Education > Juvenile literature.
School integration > Juvenile literature.
School integration > United States > Juvenile literature.
School integration > United States.
Hispanic Americans > Education.
Hispanic Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Genre:
Juvenile literature.
Physical Description:40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Variant Title:
Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation.
Format: Book
Description
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 inCalifornia"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number:Mendez S
BIO
Audience:
AD870L Lexile
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index.
ISBN:9781419710544
1419710540
Reading Program:
Accelerated Reader LG 5.1 0.5 0.5 164558