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Library Exhibit - Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary

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 .B7

Brown 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 2001

Brown 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 2003

From Brown to Bakke: the Supreme Court and school integration, 1954-1978 by J. Harvie Wilkinson, III.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
KF4155 .W54

Illustrated great decisions of the Supreme Court by Tony Mauro.
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000.
KF4549 .M334 2000

Race on trial: law and justice in American history edited by Annette Gordon-Reed.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
KF385 .A4 R33 2002

Simple 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 1976

Sites 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 Online part of the database offerings in GALILEO

Benjamin 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 Online part of the database offerings in GALILEO

Carnahan, Ira. Desegregation’s broken promises. Forbes. 172 (10): 114, Nov 10, 2003.
Full-Text Online part of the database offerings in GALILEO

Hite, 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 Online part of the database offerings in GALILEO

Houston, Paul D. Two milestones, two lingering goals. School Administrator. 60 (8): 45, Sep 2003.
Full-Text Online part of the database offerings in GALILEO

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=518

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/

National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/brownvboard/

U.S. Census Bureau Highlights 50th Anniversary http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/multimedia/AfricanAm.html

 

 

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