Brown versus Board of Education, May 17, 1954 :
50 Years
of Progress
Introduction | History | Multimedia History Collections | Segregation in the U.S. | Books in the Libraries' Collections
May 17, 2004 will mark the 50th anniversary of the decision of the
U.S. Supreme Court in the five collective cases known as Brown v.
Board of Education. The unanimous opinion declared the
doctrine of “separate but equal” to be unconstitutional.
By any measure, Brown is one of the most important legal and cultural
decisions in United States history.
Brown
v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission : web site from
U.S. Department of Education.
Brown 50 Years and Beyond : Commemorative web site from the NAACP.
Brown v. Board of Education : 50th Anniversary Bibliography. Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). "The bibliography was compiled by a group of librarians within the ARL community. The development of the bibliography illustrates a new outreach initiative launched by the ARL Diversity program to promote research librarianship in minority communities by building linkages between libraries and organizations."
History :
Brown v. Board of Education National
Historic Site, Topeka, KS : "On October 26, 1992, Congress
passed Public Law 102-525 establishing Brown v. Board of Education
National Historic Site to commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision
aimed at ending segregation in public schools. On May 17, 1954, the
Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities
are inherently unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment
to the United States Constitution, which guarantees all citizens "equal
protection of the laws."
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." Text of handout
from the site.
Brown v. Board of Education : About The Case : background
summary from Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence
and Research.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) : from Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court web site.
Brown v. Board of Education Matters : Includes "Brown" chronology. From the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF).
Brown v. Board.com : "This website is a companion to Professor Jack M. Balkin's What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (NYU Press 2001). Check out the book if you are interested in learning more about the history of and the legal issues involved in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that declared unconstitutional state segregation in public elementary and secondary schools." Includes an Interactive Civil Rights Chronology.
Brown@50 Fulfilling the Promise, from the Howard University School of Law.
Horizons of Opportunities: Celebrating 50 Years of Brown v. Board of Education May 17, 1954-2004, from the National Education Association (NEA).
In Pursuit of Freedom & Equality : Kansas and the African American
Public School Experience, 1855-1955 : An Electronic
Exhibit.
Looking Back: 'Brown v. Board of Education' : School Desegregation Fight Ended with Landmark Legal Decision. NPR segments on issues surrounding the famous case. Includes many links to audio files.
Opinions
provides the full text of decisions related to the Brown case from
the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and citations to
related state court cases.
Orientation
Handbook contains an overview and summary of the Brown case, a
discussion of court cases from 1849-1949 which were in prelude to
Brown, background on each of the five cases which comprised the Brown
case, and biographical information on participants in the Brown case.
Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education : a web site to accompany an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History.
For links to more web sites on Brown v. Board, check out the
ABA Commission on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, from the American Bar Association.
Multimedia History Collections:
National Public Radio coverage of the anniversary. Segments, with audio and images, include :
Court TV asked four Americans to talk about the importance of the [Brown] ruling in their lives:
(requires RealPlayer)
Tour Brown Sites
in Topeka, KS.
Documents
Related to Brown v. Board of Education from the National Archives
and Records Administration.
Looking Back: 'Brown v. Board of Education' : School Desegregation Fight Ended with Landmark Legal Decision. NPR segments on issues surrounding the famous case. Includes many links to audio files.
University of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of Education Digital
Archive. "This archive contains documents and images which
chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up
to the present."
Segregation in the U.S.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow : "Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named
after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States." Details segregation from the 1870s to 1950s. Extensive resources including oral
histories, interactive map activities, lesson plans, links to other resources,
teacher guides for each of the four part series. Includes a segment on Brown.
Books in the Research Libraries' Collections
A selection from our collection of online electronic books on the topic of Brown v Board, segregation and desegregation is available here.
Books from the Libraries' collection are on display in the lobby of Folsom Library. If you are interested in any of these, you may place a hold on them at the Circulation Desk. They will be available at the end of May.
The following reference titles may also be of interest:
Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century / Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek, editors ; Thomas Adams Upchurch, associate editor ; foreword by David J. Garrow. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
Folsom Ref Area E185.61 .E54 2003
Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court / Maureen Harrison & Steve Gilbert, editors. San Diego : Excellent Books, c1995.
Folsom Ref Area KF4549 .L37
We the students : Supreme Court decisions for and about students / Jamin B. Raskin. Washington, D.C : CQ Press, c2003. 2nd ed.
Folsom Ref Area KF4150.A7 R37 2003
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