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Library Exhibit - Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary
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Articles and photos on display give viewers a glimpse of this historic
Supreme Court decision issued May 17, 1954. |
The following is a companion bibliography to the display appearing in McCain Library, first floor lobby, during February 2004.
Selected Books
Argument; argument: the oral argument before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1952-55 by Oliver Brown.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1969.
KF4155 .B7Brown v. Board of Education: a Civil Rights milestone and its troubled legacy by James T. Patterson.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
KF4155 .P38 2001Brown v. Board of Education: caste, culture, and the Constitution by Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware.
Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
KF4155 .C68 2003From Brown to Bakke: the Supreme Court and school integration, 1954-1978 by J. Harvie Wilkinson, III.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
KF4155 .W54Illustrated great decisions of the Supreme Court by Tony Mauro.
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000.
KF4549 .M334 2000Race on trial: law and justice in American history edited by Annette Gordon-Reed.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
KF385 .A4 R33 2002Simple justice: the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality by Richard Kluger.
New York: Knopf, 1976.
KF4155 .K55 1976Sites of memory: perspectives on architecture and race edited by Craig Evan Barton.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
E185 .86 .S595 2001
Film at McCain Library
Simple justice, a PBS Video; a production of New Images Productions, Inc.
Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1993.
Video Tape 552
Selected Articles
Balkin, Jack M. Is the 'Brown' decision fading to irrelevance? Chronicle of Higher Education. 48 (11): B11, Nov 9, 2001.
Full-Text OnlineBenjamin Jr., Ludy T. and Ellen M. Crouse. The American Psychological Association's response to Brown v. Board of Education: The case of Kenneth B. Clark. American Psychologist. 57 (1): 38, Jan 2002.
Full-Text OnlineCarnahan, Ira. Desegregation’s broken promises. Forbes. 172 (10): 114, Nov 10, 2003.
Full-Text OnlineHite, Gregory Nelson. Race, education, and the courts: a review of James T. Patterson’s Brown v. Board of Education: a Civil Rights milestone and its troubled legacy. Journal of Supreme Court History. 26 (3): 296, 2001.
Full-Text OnlineHouston, Paul D. Two milestones, two lingering goals. School Administrator. 60 (8): 45, Sep 2003.
Full-Text Online
Websites
Brown v. Board of Education Case Information
347 U.S. 483 (May 17, 1954)
349 U.S. 294 (May 31, 1955)Brown Matters – 50th Anniversary
http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=518Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/home/17356.htm
