Separate is never equal

Duncan Tonatiuh

About this book

"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

  • 20th century
  • age:max:10
  • age:min:6
  • award:pura_belpre_award
  • childhood and youth
  • civil rights
  • civil rights movements
  • civil rights movements, juvenile literature
  • education
  • grade:max:4
  • grade:min:1
  • hispanic americans
  • hispanic americans, juvenile literature
  • hispanic & latino
  • history
  • juvenile literature
  • juvenile nonfiction
  • juvenile nonfiction / history / united states / 20th century
  • juvenile nonfiction / people & places / united states / hispanic & latino
  • juvenile nonfiction / social issues / prejudice & racism
  • lexile:870
  • lexile_code:ad
  • lexile_range:801-900
  • people & places
  • prejudice & racism
  • school integration
  • segregation in education
  • social issues