Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2321
Points per Word
0.000215
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, Sylvia Mendez, an 8-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in MENDEZ v. WESTMINSTER, the desegregation case of 1946 in California.