Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education

Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this segregation lesson, students compare and contrast educational facilities for whites and blacks in the 1950's. Students also...

You walk each day over 20 blocks to school as a 9-year old because the color of your skin does not allow you to attend a school in your own neighborhood. Scholars use the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education to investigate...

Students are introduced to the importance of the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation. As a class, they discuss how each of them would respond in different scenerios if they were a young African-American. They also...

Brown vs. Board of Education was a landmark case, but what other cases were influenced by its decision? By researching 1 of 14 civil rights legislative events, scholars follow this court case through recent events. Keeping in mind 6...

How did education play into the civil rights movement? The second lesson of a 10-part series explains the Brown vs. Board of Education court case. It helps viewers examine and analyze, via rationale from the video clip, how segregation...

Students research and discuss the case of Brown v. Board of Education by reviewing documents associated with the case.

Learners examine the court cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, and the role of the NAACP. They conduct research, write a report, and research the history of their local public schools.

Students study the cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education to learn about separate but equal laws. For this law study lesson, students read the explanation of the Plessy case,study political cartoons, and view...

Students explore  the concept of resegregation. For this civil rights lesson, students research the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in their community. Students define and research resegregation.

Learners discuss what they already know about the Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education. They have two duties: to study one side of the argument, and to develop a response to each point of that side's argument which would be...