01774cam a2200409 i 4500 210488330 TxAuBib 20150331120000.0 130930s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013032089 9781419710544 1419710540 (OCoLC)861335171 TxAuBib rda Tonatiuh, Duncan,. Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh. New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014. 40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Donated by Joe Murray. Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index. 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. AD 870 Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.1 0.5 164558. 20150331. Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- Childhood and youth Juvenile literature. School integration United States Juvenile literature. Hispanic Americans Education Juvenile literature. Hispanic Americans Civil rights Juvenile literature. Civil rights movements United States History 20th century Juvenile literature. TXTLL