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Sylvia Méndez, a Champion of Racial Tolerance and Equality in Education

Posted on Arts by · October 14, 2011 12:00 PM · 1 reaction

Obama gives Sylvia Méndez, a Latina advocate, the Medal of Freedom!

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Via The Huff Post Latino Voices

As if it had happened yesterday, Sylvia Mendez recalled that in 1944, when she was only eight years old, she and two of her brothers were victims of one of the greatest humiliations of their lives: being rejected to enter the school only because of their skin color.

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