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

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The work Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

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

Title remainder

Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation

Statement of responsibility

Duncan Tonatiuh

Title variation

• Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
• Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation

Creator

• Tonatiuh, Duncan

Subject

• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights
• Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature
• Hispanic Americans -- Education
• Hispanic Americans -- Education -- Juvenile literature
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
• School integration -- United States
• School integration -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-

Genre

• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

379.2/63

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

LC214.2

LC item number

.T66 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• filmographies

Target audience

pre adolescent