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The Legacy of Brown v Board of Education
Resource explores the history and legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court case and addresses critical questions about race and ethnicity in America over the past 60 years.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal: Sitting for Justice: Woolworth's Lunch Counter
Read a brief description of the sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This sit-in, passive and non-violent resistance to segregation laws, lasted for six months.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal: Jim Crow Laws
Find Jim Crow laws, see signs, and read restrictive covenants that restricted freedom of movement, housing, and use of public facilities by African Americans in the late 19th and 20 centuries.
Digital History
Digital History: The 14th Amendment and the Jim Crow Laws [Pdf]
Read about the background of the passage of the 14th Amendment which resulted in the famous case before the Supreme Court, Plessy v Ferguson, almost thirty years later. Suggested student exercises ask students to assess the issue of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Discusses the famous Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
Curated OER
Nmah: Separate but Equal: The Law of the Land
Photo of Supreme Court judges who decided Plessy v Ferguson
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: The Pursuit of Justice
This book analyzes 30 Supreme Court cases chosen by a group of Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators as the most important for American citizens to understand. An additional 100 significant cases included in state history...
Black Past
Black Past: Garvey, Marcus
In this encyclopedia entry you can read about Marcus Garvey, newspaper entrepreneur and advocate of black pride and separatism.