BookDragon Separate Is Never Equal Tag

08 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction

In 1947, seven years before Brown v. Board of Education desegregated all public schools throughout the United States, the Mendez family of Westminster, California, finally won a three-year fight for an equitable education for their children – and all children like them. In an era...