Curated OER
Brown v. the Board of Education: Success or Failure?
Learners identify reactions to Brown v. Board of Education. They evaluate the extent to which Brown was successful in desegregating American education. Students evaluate the role of the judiciary in affecting societal change.
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Digital History
Digital History: Segregation in the North; Case Study: Boston 7 [Pdf]
Read about the law suit against Boston Public Schools claiming that the schools were segregated in fact, although not by law. See the results of busing and read the addendum about the status of integration in Boston at this time. The...
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Freshman Academy: New Approaches to Civil Rights [Pdf]
This section from an American History book covers the extension of the application of civil rights that were legislated in the 1960s. Read about busing, affirmative action, disability rights movement, and the Native American protest...
Digital History
Digital History: The Civil Rights Movement Moves North
Summers of the late 1960s was a time of widespread violence and rioting in the nation's major inner cities. What was previously thought of as a problem of the South had spread nation-wide and was now demanding immediate attention.