Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
by Tonatiuh, Duncan
Jane Addams Book Award Finalist/Winner BSLJ Best BookCarter G. Woodson Award/HonorPura Belpré Award/Honor BookTomás Rivera Mexican American Children'sRobert F. Sibert Informational Award/HonHispanic & Latinx PeopleIRA Notable Books for a Global Society
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AR Book Level
5.1
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
2,321
Interest Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
238382 EN
About this book
Years before the landmark U. 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.