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