audio cd
Published May 27, 2014 by Dreamscape Media.
"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" --
Like most Americans, I knew about Brown v. Board of Education; but, I had never heard of the earlier case Mendez v. Westminster School District. This was an excellent children's picture book about the Mendez case, including a more comprehensive Author's Note at the end for adults.
Like most Americans, I knew about Brown v. Board of Education; but, I had never heard of the earlier case Mendez v. Westminster School District. This was an excellent children's picture book about the Mendez case, including a more comprehensive Author's Note at the end for adults.
