Brown v. Board of Education Materials

Teacher Note: The following websites contain information related to Brown v. Board of Education, its background and implications. Be sure to review them to determine that they are appropriate and suitable for your students' abilities and needs.

www.landmarkcases.org/brown/home.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html: Library of Congress African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era
http://www.naacp.org/: National Association for Advancement of Colored People website
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/brown50/: National Public Radio's "Brown v. Board of Education" series of reports on before and after Brown
http://brownvboard.org: Brown Foundation
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/features/home.html and www.abanet.org/publiced/lawday/storiesofbrown.pdf: American Bar Association
www.georgetown.edu/centers/woodstock/report/r-fea34.htm: Georgetown University
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/ brown_v_board_documents/brown_v_board.html: National Archives and Records Administration, Digital Classroom, Teaching with Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories.events.brown.html: PBS website on the struggle for civil rights
>www.americanhistory.si.edu/brown/: National Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal, Brown v. Board of Education
www.nea.org/brownvboard/index2.html: Brown at 50: Fulfilling the Promise. Website sponsored by Howard University Law School with extensive information and links related to Brown. National Education Association
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/pubs/A5/wolff.html: From Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education: The Supreme Court Rules on School Desegregation. Detailed lesson plan from Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchieve/index.html: Brown v. Board of Education digital archive. Website sponsored by the University of Michigan with information, including images, regarding desegregation
www.unbrokencircle.org: Using oral histories to tell the story of the civil rights movement. For more information contact: Southern Regional Council, 133 Carnegie Way, Suite 900, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-024, call 404-522-8764
www.socialstudies.org: National Council for the Social Studies, Social Education, the official journal for the National Council for the Social Studies, "An End and a Beginning: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education" by James H. Landman, January/February 2004, pp. 17-25. This article includes teacher background information as well as resources and websites for teaching Brown
www.brownat50.org: Howard University Law School. "Brown @50: Fulfilling the Promise," includes resources including an online chronology from the 16th century arrival of African slaves on American shores to the 2003 Supreme Court decision in Gratz v. Bollinger