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Resources
General Information
Supreme Court of the United States
Library of Congress
“America’s
Story” from the Library of Congress
Constitution of the United States
Amendments #11-27 to the Constitution from the National Archives
Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, with footnotes
14th amendment from Cornell University
14th Amendment from the World Book Encyclopedia
The Law and Race in the United States: An Outline for Understanding offers full-text court decisions, a history of “Jim Crow” laws, and more
University of Maryland Library Nonprint Media list of videos pertinent to the topic
Brown v. Board: The Case and the People
“Brown @ 50: Fulfilling the Promise” official
website from Howard University
“Teaching Brown:Reflections on Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities” is a website developed by Alonzo Smith, Resesarch Historian at the National Museum of American History, which includes a Teacher’s Resource Guide.
Official Brown 50th anniversary website (produced
by Washburn University School of Law, Topeka KS. Also see the Washburn
University School of Law website)
Landmark Cases from the
Supreme Court Historical Society is a good teaching resource for Brown,
and also has links to other important Supreme Court cases. Please also see
their pages on:
Linda Brown Thompson from pbs.org
Cheryl Brown Henderson —
a
personal perspective
National Archives "Digital Classroom" website. Includes original court documents,
teaching resources, and more
Full text of the Brown decision from The National Center for Public Policy Research
Supreme Court documents from the Brown decision including footnotes
and links to related cases, from findlaw.com
National Historic Site from the National Park Service
Brown in Context: Other Court Cases
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Milliken v Bradley
Milliken v. Bradley including full-text court documents
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson from the Supreme Court Multimedia website
Alvarez
v. Board of Trustees of Lemon Grove School District — a
link to the first school desegregation case in the US, involving California schools
in the 1930s
Civil
rights court documents from
civilrights.org
Brown in Context: Civil Rights Links
The Civil Rights Coalition
Little Rock Central High — website for the 40th anniversary of the “Little Rock 9”
Document from President Eisenhower on the Little Rock 1957 school desegregation crisis. Includes telegrams, press releases, speeches, and more.
The Ruby Bridges Foundation. Ruby Bridges was a six-year-old and the first African-American student to integrate the New Orleans school system in 1960.
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s website
SNCC 1960-66. Covers six tumultous years in the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
National Civil Rights Museum. Information about Brown, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and many other historic moments in civil rights history
The History of Jim Crow website explores segregation from the 1870s through the 1950s, the era of the infamous “Jim Crow” laws—laws that the Brown decision began to dismantle.
Forgotten Fires is a PBS documentary about the burning of two black churches in South Carolina in 1994
