Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

Young Sylvia Mendez never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle. Young Aki Munemitsu never expected to be sent away from her home and her life as she knew it. The two girls definitely never expected to know each other, until their lives intersected on a Southern California farm in a way that changed the country forever. Who are Sylvia and Aki? And why did their family stories matter then and still matter today? This book reveals the remarkable, never-before-told story-based on true events-of Mendez vs. Westminster School District, the California court case that desegregated schools for Latino children and set the stage for Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education at the national level.

Winifred Conkling is a freelance journalist who focuses on health and consumer issues. She has written ten nonfiction books. Her work has appeared in American Health, McCall's, Consumer Reports, and Reader's Digest, among other publications. Winifred, her husband, and their three children live in northern Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9781582463452
ISBN 10	158246345X
Title	Sylvia & Aki
Author	Winifred Conkling
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2013-07-09
Number of pages	160
Prizes	Winner of Jane Addams Children's Book Award 2012, Nominated for Bank Street Child Study Children's Book Award., Nominated for Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award 2015
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