Saturday, May 17, 2008

Brown v. Board of Education Decision
May 17, 1954

This is the website.

James T. Patterson
Brown v. Board of Education: a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy

Peter Irons
Jim Crow's children: the broken promise of the Brown decision

Harvey Fireside
Brown v. Board of Education: equal schooling for all

Richard Kluger
Simple justice: the history of Brown v. Board of Education and black America's struggle for equality

Elizabeth Jacoway
Turn away thy son: Little Rock, the crisis that shocked the nation

1 comment:

Gail said...

Interesting topic; it's good to see how far we have come and how far we still have to go.