A story about the desegregation of California public schools twenty years before Brown v. Board of Education. Told with Tonatiuh’s signature artistic style, based on Mayan art, Sylvia Mendez and her family fight for equality in a tale that helps to complicate our ideas of racism and segregation in America. Suggested for kids 4-9.
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
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