Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
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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 in California"-- Provided by publisher. Full description
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Mendez, Sylvia, > 1936- > Childhood and youth > Juvenile nonfiction.
School integration > United States > Juvenile nonfiction.
Hispanic Americans > Education > Juvenile nonfiction.
Hispanic Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile nonfiction.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.