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Brown v. Board of Education Selected Books & Resources |
"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 James Tackach 344.730798 T119b (Main) **
Brown v. Board of Education: The Battle for Integration Mark V. Tushnet 344.730798 TUSHNET Brown v. (Main) **
Brown v. Board of Education: The Case Against School Segregation Wayne Anderson J 344.73 ANDERSON (Main) **
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy James T. Patterson 344.730798 PATTERSO Brown v (Main, PP)
Brown v. Board of Education: Equal Schooling for All Harvey Fireside and Sarah Betsy Fuller 344.730798 F514b (Main, BW, FP, MS) **
Brown v. Board of Education (1954): School Desegregation Mark E. Dudley 344.730798 D865b (Main, FP) **
A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America Howard Ball BIO MARSHALL THURGOOD Ball (Main, MS)
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision Peter H. Irons 371.82996 IRONS (Main, EFP, FP, SA)
Removing a Badge of Slavery: The Record of Brown v. Board of Education Mark Whitman, editor 344.730798 R288 (Main, FP, SA)
Separate, But Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle James Haskins 379.2630973 H273s (Main, EFP, FP, SA) **
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality Richard Kluger 342 K714s (Main)
Thurgood Marshall Ruth Tenzer Feldman BIO MARSHALL THURGOOD Feldman (Main) **
Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice James Haskins BIO MARSHALL THURGOOD Haskins (Main, BW, FP, IO, MS, SA) **
Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences Thurgood Marshall; Mark V. Tushnet, editor BIO MARSHALL THURGOOD Autobiog Thurgood (Main)
Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Attorney and Supreme Court Justice Mark Rowh BIO MARSHALL THURGOOD Rowh (FP, SA) **
The Unfinished Agenda of Brown vs. Board of Education Editors of Black Issues in Higher Education 344.730798 UNFINISH (Main)
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 344.730798 BROWN What (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:
- University of Michigan Digital Archive: Brown v. Board of Education
- The archive is divided into four main areas of interest: Supreme Court cases; busing and school integration efforts in northern urban areas; school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District; and recent resegregation trends in American schools.
- 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.
- CCNY Library: Government Documents on the Brown Case
- From the Government Documents Department of the Library at the City College of New York.
- Thurgood Marshall
- Brief biography from the Library of Congress.
- Landmark Cases: Brown v. Board of Education
- Discussion and classroom activities.
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