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A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror by Howard Zinn
history
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The Second Mrs. Gioconda
E.L. Konigsburg - 1975
Konigsburg could create such an intriguing answer to the puzzle behind the most famous painting of all time.
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Duncan Tonatiuh - 2014
Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a “Whites only” school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated education in California.