Brown
v. Topeka Board of Education
Web Sites
Kansas Bar
Association's "The Case
of the Century"
This site, provided by the Kansas State historical Society, provides
historical background, a civil rights timeline, brief profiles of the
justices and lawyers, a glossary, student questions, and the full
script to the video production "Brown v. the Board of Education Topeka
- the Case of the Century."
Black,
White & Brown : Brown verses the Board of Education Topeka
Web resources provided as supplemental material to accompany the
broadcast of the program (KTWU Channel 11, Topeka, KS, May 3, 2004).
National Education
Association's Horizons of
Opportunity: Celebrating 50 Years of Brown v. Board of Education, May
17, 1954-2004.
Teaching Tolerance special issue: 50 Years
later: Brown v. Board of Education
Library of Congress exhibit: "With an Even Hand:
Brown v. Board at Fifty"
National Archives: Teaching with Documents: Brown
v. Board of Education
American Bar Association: Dialogue
on Brown v. Board of Education
Civil
Rights Chronology
A Companion Yale Law professor Jack Balkin's book "What Brown v. Board
of Education Should have Said."
Thomas
Jefferson and Brown v. Board
This page from PBS discusses Brown v. Board with Thomas Jefferson's
belief in universal education in mind.
Civil
Rights Lecture Notes
From an onlinie history class taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison
by Stanely Schultz - "Civil Rights in an Uncivil Society."
Civil
Rights and our National Parks
Visit National Register of Historic Places
Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Cases: Brown v. Board of Education
Monroe Elementary School
(Topeka)
Ruby Bridges Foundation
Brings you face-to-face with the now-grown 6-year-old girl who
integrated New Orleans' schools.
NAACP Honors Brown
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund commemorates Brown v. Board
with a chronology of the case, background information, and articles
describing the legacy of the famous ruling after 50 years.
National public Radio (3 part series) - "50 Years
After"
Listen to and read more about the 1954 ruling.
Find out more about
the 50th anniversary of Brown
vs. Board of
Education
(Topeka) at this comprehensive site from the Univ. of Michigan.
Another Brown vs. BOE
site with a script for reading from award-winning
playwright Marcia Cebulska "Now
Let Me Fly".
WHS
Materials
Black, white & Brown:
Brown verses the Board of Education Topeka. [videorecording]
(2004) - AV VHS 344.73 BLA
Kansas Bar Association. Brown
v. the Board of Education of Topeka - the Case of the Century
[videorecording & teaching guide] (2004) - AV VHS 344.73 BRO
Reinactment of the famous Supreme
Court case which declared racial segregation of public schools to be
unlawful under the Constitution of the United States.
Accompanying teaching materials.
Tackach, James. Brown v. Board of
Education. 344.73
TAC
This book provides a historical
overview of the case that desegregated public education in the United
States.
Kraft, Betsy Harvey. Sensational
trials of the twentieth century. 347.73 KRA
Presents accounts of eight
significant trials in the twentieth century, including the Scopes
trial, Watergate, Brown vs. Board of Education, and the Hinckley
trial.
Ware, Leland. Brown v. Board of
Education : caste, culture, and the
Constitution.
344.73 COT
WHS
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