Separados no somos iguales : Sylvia Mendez y la lucha de su familia por la integracion by Tonatiuh, Duncan 

BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2023)

BTSB #: 884852 Available

Dewey: 379.2/NAges: 6-9   
AR: 5.5 LG

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Subjects: Mendez, Sylvia,|d1936- - Childhood and youth School integration - United States Latinos (U.S.) - Education Civil rights movements - United States - History|y20th century Spanish language - Reading materials

Summary: 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. In Spanish.

Sylvia Mendez : education equality activist [Barrier-breaker bios]by Klein, J. M. 

BTSB Prebound(Cavendish Square, 2020)

BTSB #: 524090 Available

Dewey: 379.2/BAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.4 LG

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Subjects: Mendez, Sylvia,|d1936- School integration - United States Latinos (U.S.) - Education Mexican American women - California - Biography

Summary: When she was only eight years old, Sylvia Mendez was part of a legal battle that ended segregation for Hispanic students in California and set the stage for the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision to end school segregation nationwide. Mendez continues her legacy of fighting for students today.