Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education

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The American Civil Liberties Union “Amici Curiae (Friend of the Court) Brief Submitted in the Brown v. Board of Education case on Behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, et al.”
http://archive.aclu.org/court/brown.html
Text of the “Friend of the Court Brief submitted in the Brown v. Board case on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Ethical Union, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the Japanese American Citizens League, and the Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, as amici curiae.”

American Public Radio “Remembering Jim Crow.”
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering
A documentary history of racial segregation containing text, slideshows, and audio clips

Brown at 50: Howard University Law School
“Transcripts of legal documents pertaining to anti-segregation cases prior to Brown, the Brown v. Board of Education court case, and cases that followed.”
http://www.brownat50.org
“Annotated chronology for Brown v. Board of Education” that begins in 1501 with the Spanish importation of African slaves to North America and concludes in 2003

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “Brown v. Board of Education: 50 Years.”
http://www.brownmatters.org/chrono.html
List of activities of the Fund, and a chronology of cases

National Park Service “Brown v. Board of Education/National Historic Site.”
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/pages/thecase.htm
A description of the case including information about cases that were consolidated into Brown v. the Board of Education including: Bulah v. Gebhart and Belton v. Gebhart (Delaware), Bolling v. Sharpe (District of Columbia), Briggs v. Elliot (South Carolina), and Davis v. the School Board of Prince Edward County (Virginia); the complete Supreme Court opinion and information about related cases

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People “Introduction to the Court Opinion of Brown v. Board of Education Case.”
http://www.naacp.org/work/education/brownvboard/browncourtopinion.shtml
(March 29, 2004) Introduction to the Court Opinion of Brown v. Board of Education case and Brown v. Board of Education: Historical Perspective, a timeline from 1849—present

National Public Radio “Looking Back: Brown v. Board of Education.”
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/brown50
Transcripts and recordings of stories pertaining to Brown v. Board of Education that have been broadcast on NPR

The Robert Russa Moton Museum “Timeline: History of the Robert Russa Moton High School.”
http://www.moton.org/history.html
The history of the Farmville, Virginia, high school where events occurred that led to Davis v. the School Board of Prince Edward County, one of the cases that was combined into the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education

The Supreme Court of the United States “About the Supreme Court.”
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/about.html
History of the Supreme Court with specific cases and biographies of all former justices