Brown vs. Board of Education Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: In 2004, the state of Virginia honors the 50-year commemoration of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools.
Call number areas to browse: KF150-4800, E185
Keywords to search: Civil Rights, discrimination, Jim Crow, segregation, Supreme Court
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Brown, Oliver, 1918--Trials, litigation, etc.
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education.
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States.

Books and media in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (KF4155 .P38 2001)
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision (KF4155 .I758 2002)
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision (KF228.B76 W48 2001)
The Road to Brown  (KF373 .R63 1990)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law

Library Resources (r):
Humanities International Complete
Legal Collection
AP Images
Ethnic NewsWatch
U.S. History in Context
LexisNexis Academic (Legal Research)
OmniFile Full Text Select (Wilson)

Internet Resources:
Brown@50 - Links to educational and other resources related to Brown and Civil Rights, from the Howard School of Law.

Brown v. Board of Education – The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund web site includes a Brown chronology, press releases, articles, and speaking engagements around the U.S.

Brown v. Board of Education Online Archive - Documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.

Looking Back: Brown v. Board of Education - This National Public Radio series takes a look at Supreme Court deliberations, events before desegregation, Thurgood Marshall, the implications of “Separate but Equal,” and other topics.

Separate Is Not Equal from the National Museum of American History.

Teaching Brown: Reflections on Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities - First-person, reflective essays on Brown v. Board of Education; includes “A Teacher’s Resource Guide.”

Teaching with Documents: Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education – View actual court documents and other materials for this landmark case. Also includes teaching activities, timeline, and brief biographies of attorneys and litigants.

With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty - This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark judicial case.