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Without Separation
Title:
Without Separation

Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez
Author:
Brimner, Larry Dane

Gonzalez, Maya
Subject:
Historical Fiction
Juvenile Literature
Juvenile Fiction
Description:
Here is the story of Roberto Alvarez, whose court battle against racism and school segregation in Lemon Grove, CA, is considered the first time an immigrant community used the courts to successfully fight injustice.Roberto Alvarez's world changed the day he could no longer attend Lemon Grove Grammar School in the small, rural community where he lived near San Diego, California. He and the other Mexican American students were told they had to go to a new, separate school. A school just for them. A school where they would not hold back the other students. But Roberto and the other students and their families believed the new school's real purpose was to segregate, to separate. They didn't think that was right, or just, or legal. This historical fiction picture book by Sibert award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner and Pura Belpré award-winning illustrator Maya Gonzalez follows Roberto and the other immigrant families on their journey in 1931 as they battle against separation and prejudice in one of America's landmark segregation cases.
Publisher:
Astra Publishing House

Calkins Creek
Date:
2021/09/14
Digital Format:
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Kindle
Language:
English