Bibliograph

Separate is never equal, Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation, Duncan Tonatiuh

Type

Label

Separate is never equal, Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation, Duncan Tonatiuh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Separate is never equal

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

resource.readingGradeLevel

AD 870, Lexile

Responsibility statement

Duncan Tonatiuh

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, LG, 5.1, 0.5, 164558

Sub title

Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation

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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Contributor