"We conclude that the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." -Chief Justice Earl Warren      

BOOKS:

Brown v. Board of Education: the Case Against School Segregation, Wayne Anderson (2003)
J 344.73 ANDERSON   (Main, SA) **

What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: the Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision, Jack M. Balkin, editor. (2001)
344.730798 BROWN What   (Main)

The Unfinished Agenda of Brown vs. Board of Education,
Editors of Black Issues in Higher Education (2004)
344.730798 UNFINISH   (Main)

Brown v. Board of Education : Its Impact on Public Education, 1954-2004,
Dara N. Byrne, editor (2005)
344.730798 BROWN V (Main)

Brown v. Board of Education : the Case for Integration,
Judith Conaway (2007)
344.730798 CONAWAY (Main) **

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) : School Desegregation,
Mark E. Dudley (1994)
344.730798 D865b   (Main, FP) **

Brown v. Board of Education : Equal Schooling for All,
Harvey Fireside and Sarah Betsy Fuller (1994)
344.730798 F514b   (Main, BW, FP, MS) **

Jim Crow's Children : the Broken Promise of the Brown Decision,
Peter H. Irons (2002)
371.82996 IRONS (Main)

Simple Justice : the History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality,
Richard Kluger (1975)
342 K714s (Main, FP)

Brown v. Board of Education : a Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy,
James T. Patterson (2001)
344.730798 PATTERSO Brown v   (Main, PP)

Brown v. Board of Education,
James Tackach (1998)
344.730798 T119b  (Main, EFP, FP, SA) **

Brown v. Board of Education,
Diane Telgen (2005)
344. 730798 TELGEN (BW, ES, LI, SA) **

Brown v. Board of Education : the Battle for Integration,
Mark V. Tushnet (1995)
344.730798 TUSHNET Brown v.   (Main) **

Removing a Badge of Slavery : the Record of Brown v. Board of Education,
Mark Whitman, editor. (1993)
344.730798 R288  (Main, FP, SA)

DVDs

Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights
Lectures by John E. Finn (2006)
OVERSZ DVD 323.0973 FINN vol. 3 (Main)

With All Deliberate Speed: a Look at the Landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education
Peter Gilbert, director (2004)
DVD 379.263 WITH ALL (Main)

** Especially appropriate for students in grades 5-10

BW=Brightwood, EFP=East Forest Park; FP=Forest Park; IO=Indian Orchard; MS=Mason Square; PP=Pine Point, SA=Sixteen Acres

WEBSITES:

 

Brown v. Board of Education

Transcript of US Supreme Court opinion. From FindLaw.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, KS

The site consists of the Monroe Elementary School, one of the four segregated elementary schools for African American children in Topeka, and the adjacent grounds. From the National Park Service

Brown@50: Fulfilling the Promise

Includes an annotated chronology, biographical sketches, a discussion of the legal background and other resources. From Howard University School of Law.

"With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty

Web accompaniment to an exhibition at the Library of Congress. The exhibition examines precedent-setting court cases that laid the ground work for the Brown v. Board decision, explores the Supreme Court argument and the public's response to it, and closes with an overview of this profound decision's aftermath. The exhibition features more than one hundred items from the Library's extensive holdings on this subject, including books, documents, photographs, personal papers, manuscripts, maps, music, films, political cartoons, and prints.

Thurgood Marshall

Brief biography from the Library of Congress.

Landmark Cases: Brown v. Board of Education

Discussion and classroom activities.

Updated 5/10

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