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Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
- Title
- Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
- Author
- Tonatiuh, Duncan
- Publication
- New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 15-206 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 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"--
- Subjects
- Hispanic Americans > Education > Juvenile literature
- School integration > United States > Juvenile literature
- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature
- Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 39 ) and index.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-206
- ISBN
- 9781419710544 (hardback)
- 1419710540 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013032089
- OCLC
- 861335171
- Author
- Tonatiuh, Duncan, author.
- Title
- Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.
- Publisher
- New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 39 ) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-206