Separate is never equal, Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation, Duncan Tonatiuh
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Separate is never equal, Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation, Duncan Tonatiuh
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Separate is never equal
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Duncan Tonatiuh
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Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
Summary
Almost ten 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 action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated education in California
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juvenile
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- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- School integration -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans
- School integration -- United States
- Hispanic Americans + Civil rights -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans + Education -- Juvenile literature
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- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- School integration -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans
- School integration -- United States
- Hispanic Americans + Civil rights -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans + Education -- Juvenile literature
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