Useful Links
Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History: Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment (podcast)
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/miss-buchanans-period-of-adjustment
In this video, students learn about the activism of teenager Barbara Johns. In 1951, she organized over 450 students to protest in support of better conditions at their segregated high school in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The students' actions would lead to a lawsuit that became one of the five cases represented in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.
https://www.icivics.org/videos/students-and-struggle-school-integration
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
By. Vanessa Siddle Walker
This history tells the little-known story of how black educators in the South laid the groundwork for 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education and weathered its aftermath.
https://bookshop.org/books/the-lost-education-of-horace-tate-uncovering-the-hidden-heroes-who-fought-for-justice-in-schools/9781620976029
Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
By. Richard Kluger
https://bookshop.org/books/simple-justice-the-history-of-brown-v-board-of-education-and-black-america-s-struggle-for-equality/9781400030613
Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. On the 50th anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation, Kluger updated his work with a new final chapter covering events and issues that have arisen since the book was first published, including developments in civil rights and recent cases involving affirmative action, which rose directly out of Brown v. Board of Education (Publisher’s description)
The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation (article)
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/black-educators-hidden-provocateurs/567065/
Beyond the Little Rock Nine
Help students connect history to the present by including lesser-known events and milestones when you teach the history of school integration.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/beyond-the-little-rock-nine
BROWN V. BOARD: Timeline of School Integration in the U.S.Trace school integration from 1849 to 2007.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2004/brown-v-board-timeline-of-school-integration-in-the-us
The Road to Brown (47 min.)
This film tells the story of the legal campaign against segregation that launched the Civil Rights Movement. It is also a moving tribute to a visionary black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, “the man who killed Jim Crow.” By guiding students through the world of segregation sanctioned by the 1896 Plessey v. Ferguson decision, the cases Houston waged during the 1930s, and the final triumph in 1954 of Brown v. Board of Education, this film provides a concise history of how African Americans struggled for full legal equality under the constitution.
https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/road-brown
Separate is not Equal; Brown v. Board of EducationDisucsses the ‘battleground’ the legal campaign, the five communities affected, and the decision.https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/5-decision/decision.html
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/miss-buchanans-period-of-adjustment
In this video, students learn about the activism of teenager Barbara Johns. In 1951, she organized over 450 students to protest in support of better conditions at their segregated high school in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The students' actions would lead to a lawsuit that became one of the five cases represented in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.
https://www.icivics.org/videos/students-and-struggle-school-integration
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
By. Vanessa Siddle Walker
This history tells the little-known story of how black educators in the South laid the groundwork for 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education and weathered its aftermath.
https://bookshop.org/books/the-lost-education-of-horace-tate-uncovering-the-hidden-heroes-who-fought-for-justice-in-schools/9781620976029
Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
By. Richard Kluger
https://bookshop.org/books/simple-justice-the-history-of-brown-v-board-of-education-and-black-america-s-struggle-for-equality/9781400030613
Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. On the 50th anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation, Kluger updated his work with a new final chapter covering events and issues that have arisen since the book was first published, including developments in civil rights and recent cases involving affirmative action, which rose directly out of Brown v. Board of Education (Publisher’s description)
The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation (article)
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/black-educators-hidden-provocateurs/567065/
Beyond the Little Rock Nine
Help students connect history to the present by including lesser-known events and milestones when you teach the history of school integration.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/beyond-the-little-rock-nine
BROWN V. BOARD: Timeline of School Integration in the U.S.Trace school integration from 1849 to 2007.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2004/brown-v-board-timeline-of-school-integration-in-the-us
The Road to Brown (47 min.)
This film tells the story of the legal campaign against segregation that launched the Civil Rights Movement. It is also a moving tribute to a visionary black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, “the man who killed Jim Crow.” By guiding students through the world of segregation sanctioned by the 1896 Plessey v. Ferguson decision, the cases Houston waged during the 1930s, and the final triumph in 1954 of Brown v. Board of Education, this film provides a concise history of how African Americans struggled for full legal equality under the constitution.
https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/road-brown
Separate is not Equal; Brown v. Board of EducationDisucsses the ‘battleground’ the legal campaign, the five communities affected, and the decision.https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/5-decision/decision.html
Primary Sources
Brown v. Board of Education- documents from the national archives
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board#background
Filmed interview with Linda Brown Smith conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on her experiences in Kansas's segregated schools and her family's involvement in the Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit.
http://repository.wustl.edu/catalog?q=Brown+v.+Board+of+Education+of+Topeka&search_field=subject
Excerpts from the legal complaint in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1951.
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-by-christopher-paul-curtis/sources/1066
Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme Court's landmark decision abolishing "separate but equal" schools in public education.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eisenhower-brownvboard/
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep347/usrep347483/usrep347483.pdf
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board#background
Filmed interview with Linda Brown Smith conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on her experiences in Kansas's segregated schools and her family's involvement in the Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit.
http://repository.wustl.edu/catalog?q=Brown+v.+Board+of+Education+of+Topeka&search_field=subject
Excerpts from the legal complaint in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1951.
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-by-christopher-paul-curtis/sources/1066
Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme Court's landmark decision abolishing "separate but equal" schools in public education.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eisenhower-brownvboard/
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep347/usrep347483/usrep347483.pdf
Lessons
Brown v. Board of Education
To help educators teach about the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Education World offers this special lesson planning resource. Included: Links to more than 3 dozen lessons
https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson333.shtml
(H)our History Lesson: Bringing together the Brown V. Board of Education Case
Lesson Objectives:
Students will be able to....
Challenging Segregation in Public Education
Objectives
To help educators teach about the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Education World offers this special lesson planning resource. Included: Links to more than 3 dozen lessons
https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson333.shtml
(H)our History Lesson: Bringing together the Brown V. Board of Education Case
Lesson Objectives:
Students will be able to....
- Describe the five cases that made up the Brown V. Board of Education Supreme Court Case.
- Evaluate the importance of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case.
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
- Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source.
Challenging Segregation in Public Education
Objectives
- Students will examine primary documents and factual references to analyze the history of the struggle to end segregation in public education.
- Students will be able to identify the strategy used by the NAACP to overturn the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
- Students will be engaged in historical research and critical analysis.
- Students will be able to identify how events in the twentieth century affected the campaign to end segregation and be able to analyze the historical context within which the struggle to end segregation took place.