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Separate Is Never Equal - Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Duncan Tonatiuh (toh-nah-tee-YOU) is an award-winning author-illustrator. He is both Mexican and American. He grew up in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and graduated from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College in New York City. His artwork is inspired by pre-Columbian art. His aim is to create images and stories that honor the past but are relevant to today’s people, especially children. His books include A Land of Books, Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns, and Separate Is Never Equal. He currently lives in San Miguel with his family but travels in the United States often. Klappentext A decade 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 a landmark desegregation case in 1946 in California. Winner of the Pura Belpr Award. Full color. Zusammenfassung The only picture book to tell the inspiring tale of Sylvia Mendez, who helped end school segregation in California, prior to Brown vs. the Board of Education.

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Authors Duncan Tonatiuh, Tonatiuh Duncan
Publisher Abrams
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 7 to 9
Product format Hardback
Released 01.05.2014
 
EAN 9781419710544
ISBN 978-1-4197-1054-4
No. of pages 40
Subjects Children's and young people's books > Picture books

JUVENILE FICTION / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Picture storybooks, Interest age: from c 6 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past

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