Separate is never equal Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
(2014)
By:
Tonatiuh, Duncan
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC : Made available through hoopla, 2014
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (22 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781629238548 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11096638, 1629238546 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11096638
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2015 Belpre Illustrator Honor Book Award
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
Winner of the 2015 Robert F.Sibert Informational Honor Book Award
Read by Adriana Sananes
Mode of access: World Wide Web