BrownvsBdofEd

BOOKS
Brown v. Board of Education
Balkin, Jack M., ed. What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Landmark Civil Rights Decision. New York: New York. University Press, 2001. [Circ. KF 228 .B76 W48 2001] NEW
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. [Juv. Non-Fic. 379.2 Bri] NEW
Clotfelter, Charles T. After Brown : The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. [SwVCC MAIN LC214.2 .C56 2004] NEW
Gilkey, Langdon Brown. Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. [Circ. KF 228 .M39 G55 1998]
Harrison, Maureen and Steve Gilbert, eds. Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Beverly Hills: Excellent Books, 1991. [Circ. KF 4549 .L37 1991]
Irons, Peter. Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. [Circ. KF 4155 .I758 2002] NEW
Martin, Waldo E., Jr., ed. Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1998. [Circ. KF 228 .B76 B76 1998] NEW
Orfield, Gary, Susan E. Eaton, and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation. Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: The New Press, 1996. [Circ. LC 212.62 .O72 1996] NEW
Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [Circ. KF 228 .B76 P3 2002] NEW
Prendergast, Catherine. Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. [Circ. LC 2731 .P72 2003] NEW
Whitman, Mark, ed. Removing a Badge of Slavery: The Record of Brown v. Board of Education. Princeton: Markus Wiener Pub., 1993. [Circ. KF 4155 .R46 1992]
Wilkinson, J. Harvie. From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration, 1954-1978. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. [Circ. KF 4155 .W54]
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Civil Rights Movements—United States—History
Adams, Janus. Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Right History. New York: Wiley, 1998. [netLibrary]
Ames, William C. The Negro Struggle for Equality in the Twentieth Century. Boston: Heath, 1965. [Circ. E 185.61 .A49]
Asante, Molefi K. Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2003. [Circ. E 185.615 .A8 2003]
Banner-Haley, Charles Pete T. The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. [netLibrary]
Belfrage, Sally. Freedom Summer. New York: Viking Press, 1965. [Circ. E 185.93 .M6 B4]
Bell, Derrick A. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Baskc Books, 1992. [Circ. E 185.615 .B395 1992]
Blackburn, Sara. White Justice: Black Experience Today in America’s Courtrooms. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. [Circ. KF 4757 .Z9 B4]
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Dellums, Ronald V. Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power. Boston: Beacon Press 2000. [netLibrary]
Dornfelf, Margaret. The Turning Tide: From the Desegregation of the Armed Forces to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1946-1958. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. [Juv. Non-Fic. 973.0496 Dor]
Dubois, Muriel L. Rosa Parks: A Photo-Illustrated Biography. Mankato, Minn.: Bridgestone Books, 2003 [Juv. Non-Fic. 323.092 Dub]
Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. [netLibrary]
Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom bound. New York: Wiley, 1998. [netLibrary]
Hauser, Pierre. Great Ambitions: From the “Separate but Equal” Doctrine to the Birth of the NAACP, 1896-1909. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. [Juv. Non-Fic. 323.1 Hau]
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Hull, Mary. Struggle and Love, 1972-1997: From the Gary Convention to the Aftermath of the Million Man March. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997. [Juv. Non-Fic. 973.049 Hul]
Lincoln, C. Eric, et al. “Have We Overcome? : Race Relations Since Brown: Essays.” Fourth Chancellor’s Symposium on Southern History, University of Mississippi,1978. Ed. Michael.V. Namorato, Michael. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979. [Circ. E 185.61 .C53 1978]
Mejer, August. A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965: Essays and Reflections. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. [netLibrary]
Raffel, Jeffrey A. Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegragation: The American Experience. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. [Ref. LC 212.52 .R34 1998] NEW
Robbins, Richard. Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. [netLibrary]
Rossell, Christine, David J. Armor, and Herbert J. Walberg, eds. School Desegregation in the 21^st Century. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. [Circ. LC 214.2 .S353 2002] NEW
Rowan, Carl Thomas. Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1993. [Circ. E 186.615 .R65 1993]
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Sklansky, Jeff. James Farmer. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1992. [Juv. Non-Fic. 323.092 Skl]
Smith, Robert Charles. We have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. [netLibrary]
The Civil Rights Movement. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2000. [Circ. E 185.61 .C6124 2000]
Treanor, Nick, ed. The Civil Rights Movement. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003. [Circ. E 196.61 .C58 2003]
Weisbrot, Robert. Marching Toward Freedom, 1957-1965: From the Founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the Assassination of Malcom X. New York: Chelsea House, 1994. [Juv. Non-Fic. 973.049 Wei]
Williams, John B. Race Descrimination in Public Higher Education: Interpreting Federal Civil Rights Enforcement, 1964-1996. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers,1997. [Circ. LC 212.42 .W55 1997] NEW
Winbush, Raymond A. Should America Pay? : Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations. New York: Amistad, 2003. [Circ. E 185.89 .R45 S56 2003] NEW
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King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Coretta Scott. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. [Circ. E 185.97 .K5 K5]
Lewis, David L. King: A Critical Biography. New York: Praeger, 1970. [Circ. E 185.97 .K5 L45]
MacMillan, Dianne M. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hillside, New Jersey: Enslow, 1992. [Juv. Non-Fic. 323.092 Mac]
Schlank, Carol Hilgartner. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography for Young Children. Mt. Rainier, Maryland: Gryphon House, 1990. [Juv. Non-Fic. 323.892 Sch]
Strazzabosco, Jeanne. Learning about Dignity from the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: PowerKids Press, 1996. [netLibrary]
Williams, Clarence G., ed. Reflections of the Dream: 1975-1994, Twenty Years Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. [netLibrary]
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African Americans—Civil Rights
Gregory, Dick. Nigger: An Autobiography. New York: Dutton, 1964. [Circ. PN 2287 .G68 A3]
Handlin, Oscar. Fire-Bell in the Night: The Crisis in Civil Rights. Boston: Little Brown, 1964. [Circ. E 185.61 .H23]
Higham, John, ed. Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. [netLibrary]
Howard, John R. The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. [netLibrary]
Hull, Mary. Rosa Parks. New York: Chelsea House, 1994. [Juv. Non-Fic. 323.092 Hul]
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Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1995. [netLibrary]
Killian, Lewis M. Racial Crisis in America: Leadership in Conflict. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1964. [Circ. E 185.61 .K49]
King, Martin Luther, Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. [Circ. E 185.97 .K5 A25 1986]
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. [Circ. E 185.61 .K54]
Loevy, Robert D., ed. The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law that Ended Racial Segregation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. [netLibrary]
Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. [Oversize E 185.615 .L96 1992]
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Mejer, August, Elliott Rudwick, and Francis L. Broderick. Black Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. [Circ. E 185.61 .M514]
Rennert, Richard. Civil Rights Leaders. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1993. [Juv. Non-Fic.]
Treanor, Nick, ed. The Civil Rights Movement. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003. [Circ. E 186.61 .C58 2003]
Warren, Robert Penn. Who Speaks for the Negro? New York: Random House, 1965. [Circ. E 185.61 .W22]
Weisbrot, Robert. Marching Toward Freedom, 1957-1965: The Founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the Assassination of Malcom X. New York: Chelsea House, 1994. [Juv. Non-Fic. 973.049 Wei]
Wells, Diana. We have a Dream. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993. [Circ. E 185.61 .W44 1993]
Westin, Alan F. Freedom Now! : The Civil-Rights Struggle in America. New York: Basic Books, 1964. [Circ. E 185.61 .W54]
Winters, Paul A. The Civil Rights Movement. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. [Circ. E 185.61 .C612 2000]
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Civil Rights Workers – United States
Farmer, James. Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Arbor House, 1985. [Circ. E 185.97 .F37 A35 1985]
Friedland, Michael B. Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998. [netLibrary]
AUDIOCASSETTES
African Americans—Civil Rights
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Song, 1960-1966. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways, 1997. [CD Collection M 1977 .C47 V65 1997]
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VIDEOS
Civil Rights Movements—United States—History
Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads. A Nation of Law?, 1968-1971. Dir. Terry Ott. PBS Video, 1990. [Video E 185.615 .E93 1898]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Martin Luther King: “I have a Dream”. MPI Home Video, 1988. [Audio Visual Video E 195.61 .M37 1988]
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Search for Black Identity. Guidance Associated, 198-?. [Video JC 599 .U5 M3 198-?]
20^th Century. A&E Home Video, 1994. [Video E 741 .T89 1994]
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African Americans—Civil Rights
Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads. A Nation of Law? 1968-1971. PBS Video, 1990. [Video E 185.615 .E93 1989]
The Black American History Series. 5 volumes. Phoenix Multimedia, 1999 [Video E 185 .B52 1999]
Civil Rights Workers – United States
Malcolm X. A&E Home Video, 1995. [Video BP 223 .Z8 M3 1995
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ARTICLES
INFOTRAC
The library at SWvCC has full-text periodical databases available on campus and off campus to students and staff. The following are some of the available full-text articles on Brown vs Board of Education and/or related topics available through Infotrac and SIRS. Remote access information is available at http://www.sw.edu/library/serv02.htm.
Infotrac access information - http://www.sw.edu/library/printhb7.htm.	Infotrac citing information - http://www.sw.edu/library/printhb13.htm.
Aucoin, Brent J. (Winter, 1998). "Thomas Goode Jones and African American civil rights in the New South." The Historian, 60, 2, 257-271. InfoTrac full-text.
Bennett, Lerone, Jr. (September, 1995). "The Second time around: will history repeat itself and rob blacks of the gains of the 1960s?." Ebony, 50, 11, 86-89. InfoTrac full-text.
Bennett, Lerone, Jr. (Feb, 2001). "10 Most dramatic events in African-American history." Ebony, 56, 4, 116. InfoTrac full-text.
Berry, Mary Frances. (Annual, 1996). "Vindicating Martin Luther King, Jr.: the road to a color-blind society." The Journal of Negro History, 81, 1-4, 137-144. InfoTrac full-text.
"'Brown' at 40. (1954 Supreme Court case 'Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas')." (May 23, 1994). The Nation, 258, 20, 687-89. InfoTrac full-text.
"Brown vs. Board of Education, May 17, 1954." (May 20, 1996). Jet, 90, 1, p20. InfoTrac full-text.
"Brown vs. Board of Education celebration. (National Report). A Tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall." (June 9, 2003). Jet, 103, 24, p8. InfoTrac full-text.
"Brown vs. Board of Education decision: 40 years later." (June 6, 1994). Jet, 86,5, 26-28. InfoTrac full-text.
Butler, John Sibley. (March-April, 1996). "The Return of open debate." Society, 33, 3, 11-18. InfoTrac full-text.
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Canady, Charles T. (January-February, 1998). "America's struggle for racial equality." Policy Review, 87, 42-47. InfoTrac full-text.
Clinton, Hilary Rodham. (June 21, 1999). "A Bus ride to freedom and Equality." White House Weekly, 20, 25, 4. InfoTrac full-text.
Conyers, James E. (Winter, 2002). "Racial inequality: emphasis on explanations." The Western Journal of Black Studies, 26, 4, 249-254. InfoTrac full-text.
Cripps, Thomas. (February, 2003). "Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle." Journal of Southern History, 69, 1, 227-228. InfoTrac full-text.
Delgado, Richard. (March, 2003). "Linking arms: recent books on interracial coalition as an avenue of social reform." Cornell Law Review, 88, 3, 866-884. InfoTrac full-text.
Drake, W. Avon. (Spring, 2003). "Affirmative action at the crossroads: race and the future of black progress." The Western Journal of Black Studies, 27, 1, 57-64. InfoTrac full-text.
Dyson, Eric. (January-February, 2003). "The Content of their character: the language of the civil rights racial justice." The Other Side, 39, 1, 32-35. InfoTrac full-text.
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"The End of the 'Colortocracy'." (Winter, 2001). The Wilson Quarterly, 25, 1, 104. InfoTrac full-text.
Fairclough, Adam. (November, 2002). "The Cold War and the color line: American race relations in the global arena." History Today, 52, 11, 84-85. InfoTrac full-text.
Federico, Christopher M. & Jim Sidanius. (Summer, 2002). "Sophistication and the antecedents of whites' racial policy attitudes: racism, ideology, and affirmative action in America." Public Opinion Quarterly, 66, 2, 145-176. InfoTrac full-text.
Glasser, Ira. (March, 2003). "Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson: Precursors to the civil rights movement." World and I, 18, 3, 257. InfoTrac full-text.
Goddard, Terry D. (Spring, 2003). "Southern social justice: Brooks Hays and the little rock school crisis." Baptist History and Heritage, 38, 2, 68-86. InfoTrac full-text.
Graglia, Lino A. (March-April, 1996). "The Triumph and defeat of the nondiscrimination principle." Society, 33,3, 7-10. Infotrac full-text.
Greenlaw, Paul S. & Sanne S. Jensen. (Spring, 1996). "Race-norming and the Civil Rights Act of 1991." Public Personnel Management, 25, 1, 13-24. InfoTrac full-text.
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Howe, Darcus. (September 8, 2003). "The US black revolt began on the cotton plantations, not at the Lincoln Memorial." New Statesman, 132, 4654, 11. InfoTrac full-text.
Jackson, Jesse L. (Spring, 2000). "Race and Racism in America." National Forum, 80, 2, 9. InfoTrac full-text.
Kousser, J. Morgan. (Spring, 2000). "The Supreme Court and the undoing of the second reconstruction." National Forum, 80, 1, 25. InfoTrac full-text.
Kowalski, Kathiann M. (February, 2000). The NAACP's struggle for civil liberty. Cobblestone, 21, 2, 18. InfoTrac full-text.
Lee, R. A. (Fall, 1999). "The Evolution of affirmative action." Public Personnel Management, 28, 3, 393. InfoTrac full-text.
"Legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education decision to be examined at Saint Louis University event; conference will focus on 50th anniversary of landmark case." (July 30, 2003). Ascribe Law News Service, pNA. InfoTrac full-text.
Levin, Brian. (Summer, 2002). "From slavery to hate crime laws: the emergence of race and status-abased protection in American criminal law." Journal of Social Issues, 58, 2, 227-245. InfoTrac full-text.
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Mandziuk, Roseann M. (Summer, 2003). "Commemorating Sojourner Truth: negotiating the politics of race and gender in the spaces of public memory." Western Journal of Communication, 67, 3, 271-291. InfoTrac full-text.
Mohl, Raymond A. (Winter, 1999). "'South of the South?': Jews, Blacks, and the civil rights movement in Miami, 1945-1960." Journal of American Ethnic History, 18, 2, 3-5. InfoTrac full-text.
Nelson, Jack. (Fall, 2003). "Reporting on the civil rights movement: '... the issue seemed so cut and dry and the injustices so stark that reporters struggled to remain objective...'." Neiman Reports, 57, 3, 6-8. InfoTrac full-text.
Nuechterlein, James. (November, 1999). "The Bus stops here." First Things: a Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 13. InfoTrac full-text.
Parker, Darren. (January-February, 2003). "Doing the work: many White activists are eager to invoke the legacy of the civil rights movement without working to overcome the race, class, and economic differences within their own groups." The Other Side, 39, 1, 32-35. InfoTrac full-text.
Peelle, Carolyn C. (December, 1999). "James Farmer on affirmative action and race relations, and the 'Trotter Review' special report on 'Diversity, pedagogy and higher education: lessons and accomplishments.' (Excerpt)." Equity & Excellence in Education, 32, 3, 111-114. InfoTrac full-text.
Platt, Anthony M. (Spring, 1997). "'The Land that never has been yet:' U.S. race relations at the crossroads." Social Justice, 24, 1, 7-21. InfoTrac full-text.
Pratt, Robert A. (Winter, 1996). "New directions in Virginia's civil rights history." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 104, 1, 149-156. InfoTrac full-text.
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"Question and answer session on Brown vs. Board of Education in Beltsville, Maryland." (May 23, 1994). Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 30, 20, 1101-1106. InfoTrac full-text.
"Race in American public schools: rapidly resegregating school districts. (Primary sources selections from recent reports, studies, and other documents)." (November, 2002). The Atlantic Monthly, 290, 4, 46. InfoTrac full-text.
Rouse, Jacqueline Anne. (Annual, 1996). "Out of the shadow of Tuskegee: Margaret Murray Washington, social activism, and race vindication." The Journal of Negro History, 81, 1-4, 31-46. InfoTrac full-text.
Smith, Vern E., et al. (April 6, 1998). "The War on King's legacy." Newsweek, 131, 14, 42-47. InfoTrac full-text.
Sowell, Thomas, et al. (Dec 5, 1994). "Up from slavery." Forbes, 154, 13, 84-91. InfoTrac full-text.
"Speaking of people. (notable moments and people in civil rights history)." (December, 1999). Ebony, 55, 2, 10. InfoTrac full-text.
Steele, Shelby. (November, 2002). "The Age of white guilt: and the disappearance of the black individual." Harper's Magazine, 305, 1830, 33-42. InfoTrac full-text.
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Tanner, Becky. (July 12, 2000). "Kansas State Historical Society to get Brown vs. Board of Education files." Knight Ridder/Tribute News Service, pK1193. InfoTrac full-text.
Thernstrom, Stephan & Abigail Thernstrom. (October 13, 1997). "We have overcome." The New Republic, 217, 15, 23-27. InfoTrac full-text.
Toner, Robin. (Feb 21, 2003). "Republicans, Democrats, and race: an uneasy history..." New York Times Upfront, 135, 10, 26-31. InfoTrac full-text.
Tuttle, Kathleen. (Jan 15, 1996). "Lessons from the past." Newsweek, 127, 3, 13. InfoTrac full-text.
Umstead, R. Thomas. (Sept 15, 2003). "Court marks a milestone: net, AOL Time Warner honor desegregation ruling's anniversary." Multichannel News, 24, 37, p26. InfoTrac full-text.
"University of Central Florida Freshman Assignment: Brown vs. Board of Education; 6,000 Student to study Landmark Decision in Across-Curriculum Project." (August 11, 2003). Ascribe Higher Education News, pNA. InfoTrac full-text.
Updike, Lara. (June 9, 2003). "History: the Other Bus Boycott." Newsweek, 14. InfoTrac full-text.
White, James Boyd. (June, 2002). "What's wrong with our talk about race? On history, particularity, and affirmative action." Michigan Law Review, 100, 7, 1927-1953. InfoTrac full-text.
Willette, Renee. (Fall, 2003). "Decades of discrimination: national crisis has often ushered in massive suspensions of civil rights." Colorlines Magazine, 6, 3, 13-15. InfoTrac full-text.
Wilson, Roger. (Summer, 1993). "Repairing race relations." Spectrum: the Journal of State Government, 66, 3, 8-25. InfoTrac full-text.
Wolfson, Adam. (Summer, 2003). "The Martin Luther King we remember." Public Interest, 39-65. InfoTrac full-text.
Woodhouse, Shawn. (Fall, 2002). "The Historical development of affirmative action: an aggregated analysis." The Western Journal of Black Studies, 26, 3, 155-58. InfoTrac full-text.
"50 Years Ago Today Oral Arguments Heard in Brown vs. Board of Education, Says Rep. Fattah." (Dec 9, 2003). US Newswire, pNA. InfoTrac full-text.
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WEB SITES
Academic Info: African American History Directory of links providing access to information on the subject. Includes resource on civil rights, institutions, and a list of important men and women.
African American History "Information on African-American history from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Covers the Dred Scott decision, the post-Civil War period, and the Civil Rights struggles."
American Civil Rights Movement Core Knowledge Foundation Cross-curricular lesson plan for 8th grade teachers. Provides descriptions of daily objectives and activities and samples of quiz and test handouts. Available in PDF format.
Beyond the Playing Field National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) "Collection of official documents written by Jackie Robinson, an African-American baseball player and civil rights activist. Includes lesson plans relating to the study of the American Civil Rights movement and political activism."
Black History The New York Institute for Special Education Collection of Internet resources on the history and culture of African Americans. Covers civil rights and politics, society, antislavery movements, and creative arts.
Brown v. Board of Education Overview of this landmark case on racism in public schools
Brown vs. Board of Education: The Interactive Experience "Documentation of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case. Includes information on the background of segregation, Linda Brown, and Thurgood Marshall."
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site National Park Service Description, visitor information, and links to related material.
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Civil Rights Library of Congress Exhibition of the photographs by Danny Lyon, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, presented by the Library of Congress, based in Washington, D.C.
Civil Rights: A Status Report Comprehensive collection of essays on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and its legacy. Explores and evaluates the history of African Americans including slavery, Abolition, the Civil War, and the formation of Ku Klux Klan. Covers major issues, events, legislation, court cases, contributions of noted leaders, and organizations.
Civil Rights and Discrimination: An Overview Brief history of civil rights legislation in the United States. Contains links to relevant federal and state legislation, administrative law, and judicial opinions. Also supplies resources on human rights worldwide.
Civil Rights Act of 1991 Hieros Gamos Complete text of this law outlining the rights of employees in the United States.
Civil Rights/Casualties Of Wartime Columbia Education Center Activity-based lesson plan on American constitutional rights, including political and economic consequences of wars.
Civil Rights Literature "Reviews of publications pertaining to the Civil Rights Movement, published by African-American activists in the 1960s."
Civil Rights Timeline "Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement in U.S. Provides timeline from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and concludes with the 1992 Rodney King-related riots in Los Angeles, California."
Convention against Discrimination in Education E-text of this convention adopted by the UNESCO in Paris in December 1960.
Diversity and affirmative action: The State of Campus Opinion. By: Rothman, Stanley; Lipset, S. M.; Nevitte, Neil. Academic Questions, Fall2002, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p52 Focuses on a U.S. District Court judge ruling on the provision of preference in admission policies to minority students by the University of Michigan. Reliance on social science testimony; Advancement of racial and ethnic diversity; Improvement of the education of all students.
Documents Related to Brown vs. Board of Education Letters and transcripts on this case related to racial segregation, accompanied by an interdisciplinary lesson plan and activities. Helps teachers create awareness of the 14th Amendment under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
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Ed. disparities assessed. By: Browne, J. Zamgba. New York Amsterdam News, 5/29/2003, Vol. 94 Issue 22, p40 The NAACP in Charlottesville, Virginia, chapter held a public hearing to access the impact of education disparities across the state. The hearing was based on recent studies indicating that despite the Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court ruling, gross disparities in public education still exist in the state for minorities in grades K-12. Studies indicate that the gross disparities existing for minorities in education involve such issues as access to early childhood education and educational environment.
Early Civil Rights Struggles (1945-1955) Collection of essays on African-American history during the period of the early Civil Rights Movement. Covers the integration of universities, Brown v. Board of Education, and the murder of Emmett Till.
The End of the Civil Rights Movement? Discovery Communications Lesson plan for the study of race relations in America with special focus on the Civil Rights Movement, provided by Discovery Channel School. Contains information on required materials, procedures, and evaluation. Also features study questions and vocabulary aided by audio clips.
The Fight for Civil Rights Core Knowledge Foundation. Lesson plan by Rod Ambelang, on the African-American struggle for civil rights, under leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Provides a historical background and suggests activities for students to investigate the developments. Also contains a bibliography.
4 Little Girls Background on and summary and photos from Spike Lee's 1998 documentary on the four girls killed in a Birmingham church bombing in 1963. Presents material on racial politics and the struggle for black civil rights in the 1960s. Includes a teacher's guide with four lesson plans and a timeline of U.S. Civil Rights history from 1600 to the present. Provides a guide to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, with a description of recent exhibits and museum hours.
Harlem Renaissance PBS "Online forum on this period of outstanding literary vigor and creativity that took place in the 1920s. Discusses its social, economic, and cultural impacts leading to the Civil Rights Movement."
Harvard Law School Honors Black Graduates, Brown vs.. Board of Education Lawyers. Black Issues in Higher Education, 10/26/2000, Vol. 17 Issue 18, p15 Reports that the Harvard University Law School honored its Afro-American alumni and the Brown vs. Board of Education litigation team, in October 2000. Attendees to the event.
The Heart of the Race Problem "E-text of this article by Quincy Ewing on discrimination, published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1909. Discusses the prevalent attitudes of the time toward African Americans.
History and Politics Out Loud Audio resource containing the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., from the 1963 civil rights march in Washington, D.C.
History and Politics Out Loud Address by Whitney Young, Jr., civil rights activist and leader of the Urban League, at the March for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963.
A House Divided Tulane University, U.S. Teaching guide on the history of Civil Rights in Louisiana, provided by the Southern Institute for Education and Research, U.S. Includes lecture notes, test papers based on those notes for students, chronology of the modern Civil Rights movement in New Orleans, a glossary, and a bibliography.
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights E-text of this covenant, which was ratified by several nations in 1976 to become international law. Also includes the list of signatories.
Keeping the Faith: Civil Rights and the Baby Boom Interview with Congressman John Lewis, civil rights activist and chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s, conducted by Seth Goddard. Provides Lewis's reminiscences on the cultural and political climate of the 1960s, including the Mississippi Summer Project and Bloody Sunday, the clash between civil rights demonstrators and state troopers on Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, which inspired the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Martin Luther King Notes on this black American leader of the civil rights campaign of the 20th century.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Foundation Biography of this American civil rights activist awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, in 1964.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month Louisiana State University Libraries Information on the life and work of this civil rights leader. Provides a biography and notes on education, honorary degrees, and awards. Also includes a chronology and links to related sites.
Mixing Classes. By: Kahlenberg, Richard D.. Washington Monthly, Dec2000, Vol. 32 Issue 12, p9 Discusses why economic desegregation is significant to school reform in the United States in 2000. Explanation of the philosophy of Horace Mann, the 19th century educator, on the need for public schools to be common schools; Issues on equality in education; Why poor parents would want to enter their children in middle-class schools.
My Mind Set on Freedom : A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 Review by William Jordan of John Salmond's book, published by H-Net Reviews in April 1998.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Official site of this U.S.-based civil rights organization condemning discrimination of racial minorities. Provides its historical background, press releases, and information on the educational, legal, social, cultural, economic, and community programs. Features news, issue alerts, membership details, and description of the publication, The Crisis.-
NAACP: Brown still not realized. By: Browne, J. Zamgba. New York Amsterdam News, 5/29/2003, Vol. 94 Issue 22, p5 In Charlottesville, Virginia, NAACP held a public hearing to access the impact of education disparities across the state. The hearing was based on studies indicating that despite the Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court ruling, gross disparities in public education still exist in the state for minorities in grades K-12. Keri Fume, president of the NAACP, said that appropriate steps, which may include lobbying, litigation or direct action, will be taken to correct the problem. Disparities existing for minorities in education involve issues like access to early childhood education and educational environment.
The Negro Baseball Leagues Comprehensive history of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Includes the history of segregation in baseball, player and team profiles, a bibliography, an events calendar, and issues of the SABER Negro Leagues Committee Newsletter.
The Negro's Place in History "E-text of this essay by Willis Bought on published in The Arena in 1896. Discusses segregation, and the achievements of African Americans of the time ."
Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Education Government department responsible for enforcing civil rights laws in educational arenas. Provides access to current publications and resources regarding race, sex, and disability discrimination, public testimony, and educational research.
On Brown vs. Board, Rep. Jackson proposes constitutional amendment. By: Denney, Hazel Trice. New York Amsterdam News, 05/24/2001, Vol. 92 Issue 21, p38 Reports on the proposed constitutional amendment by United States Representative Jesse Jackson mandating equal high quality in education for all public schools. Jackson's announcement at an event commemorating the 'Brown vs. Board of Education' decision on school desegregation; Summary of the decision.
Rosa Parks Profile of this black American civil rights activist who helped end bus segregation.
Rosa Parks American Academy of Achievement "Profile of this black American civil rights activist. Provides a short biography, an interview, photographs, and audio-video clips."
Primary Sources and Activities National Archives and Records Administration Collection of educational resources on U.S. history. Provides documents and teaching activities on constitutional issues, international wars and conflicts, census and migrations, and national civil rights movements.
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The Race Problem Library of Congress Speech by Frederick Douglass discussing southern "Resurrectionists" and their attempts to deprive southern African-Americans of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called "negro problem": "I object to characterizing the relation subsisting between the white and colored people of this country as the Negro problem, as if the Negro had precipitated that problem, and as if he were in any way responsible for the problem." Douglass expresses his faith that the federal government will continue to enforce civil rights for African-Americans in the South.
Red Onion State Prison Human Rights Watch "Report on human rights violations in this prison in Virginia, U.S. Examines basic condition of prisoners, the use of segregation and arms, and relation between inmates and the authority."
St. Joseph's College explores Brown vs. Board of Education decision. New York Amsterdam News, 03/15/2001, Vol. 92 Issue 11, p30 Reports on the presentation of 'Brown vs. Board of Education and the Limits of the Law,' a conference on the history of the American civil rights movement by Saint Joseph's College in New York City.
Sitting for Justice National Museum of American History Brief information on the sit-in campaigns at the lunch counter of the F. W. Woolworth shop in North Carolina in 1960. Provides a timeline of the U.S. civil rights movement.
This Person In Black History: Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993) Seditionists.org Brief biographical sketch of this African-American


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Affirmative Action Programs	Age Discrimination in Employment
Brown, Oliver, 1918--Trials, Litigation, etc.	De facto school segregation
Discrimination in education	Discrimination in Employment
Discrimination in higher education	Diversity in the Workplace
Education, Bilingual	Equal Pay for Equal Work
Multicultural Education	Racism
Racism--United States--History	Racism in Textbooks
Reverse Discrimination in Employment	School Integration--United States--History
Segregation in Education-- Law and Legislation--United States	Segregation in Higher Education
Sex discrimination in Education	Sex discrimination in Higher Education
Special Education	Test Bias
Textbook bias	Topeka (Kan). Board of Education
United States--Race Relations

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