The Beginning
The book won these two literary awards.
What is the Pura Belpre Award?
What is the Robert F. Sibert Award?
Sylvia's cousins look like...
What is light-skinned and auburn hair?
This lawyer had helped the people of San Bernardino integrate the town's pools. It was suggested that Mr. Mendez hire him.
Who is David Marcus?
The case was known as... and it lasted this number of days.
Mendez v. Westminster and the California Board of Education
What is 5 days?
Sylvia received this award in 2011..
She said "When you fight for justice, others will follow."
What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Who is Sylvia's mom? Cuando la causa es justa, los demas te siguen.
The setting of the story..
What is Westminster, California?
Sylvia's dad went to meet with this man after Aunt Soledad told him what happened.
Who is the superintendent, Mr. Harris?
Mr. Mendez and Mr. Marcus met this family who had also experienced segregation.
Who is the Estrada family.
This case was 7 years before the landmark case of...
What is Brown vs Board of Education
In 2007 the U.S. Postal Service did this..
What is issue a commemorative stamp?
Sylvia's family moved to the farm so her dad could be the boss and grow.....
What is asparagus, chilies, and tomatoes?
The "Mexican School"....
What is Hoover Elementary?
This number of families joined Mr. Mendez in the case.
What is four families?
The fight is relevant today because segregation causes..
What is feelings of superiority in one group and feelings of inferiority in another group?
Sylvia grew up and became this...
What is a nurse?
Sylvia was going to be in this grade when Aunt Soledad drove her to the public school on 17th street.
What is 3rd Grade?
Mr. Mendez created this group.
People thought if they signed the petition, this would happen.
What is the Parents' Association of Mexican-American Children?
What is "lose their job"?
Mr. Marcus wanted to show that segregation affected this number of students in the Orange County School System.
What is more than 5,000 students?
He was a member of the NAACP and sent court briefs to the judge in the Mendez case. He would go on to become the lawyer in the Brown case.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Sylvia's mother regretted this just before she died...
What is "that few people knew about the Mendez case and her family's fight for equality"?
Sylvia's parents are from..
What is Mexico and Puerto Rico?
One day this person overhead Mr. Mendez and suggested that he file a lawsuit instead of a petition.
Who is a "truck driver"?
Mr. Kent, the superintendent of the Garden Grove district, said the children were sent to the Mexican school for these reasons.
What is?
to help them improve their English
for their social behavior
problems with health and hygiene
This percent of students Mr. Kent said were inferior to the white students.
The reason Mr. Kent felt that the students had to go to the Mexican School.
What is 75%?
What is "they were inferior" to white students?
This judge took almost a year to give his decision.
This court had to hear an appeal by the school board.
Who is Judge Paul McCormick?
What is the San Francisco Court of Appeals?