Separate is never equal Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
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Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a "Whites only" school. Her parents took actio... 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.