wgbh_tdcr_028 028 tdcr wgbh yes Documenting Brown 5 : Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 African Americans--Civil rights Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States School integration--Law and legislation--United States African Americans--Segregation Minorities--Education Civil rights movements--United States United States--Race relations Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka National Association for the Advancement of Colored People United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment United States. Supreme Court Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc. Warren, Earl, 1891-1974 Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953 Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc. Ferguson, John H., judge--Trials, litigation, etc. Brown, Oliver, 1918- --Trials, litigation, etc. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools were unconstitutional, challenging centuries of legalized segregation in America. It was considered the most important civil rights case of the twentieth century. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the Court's unanimous opinion. Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Collection funded by: Opensource. Grade range: 6-12. Part of the series "Brown Reactions" : 1. Documenting Brown -- 2. Plessy v. Ferguson -- 3. Gong Lum v. Rice -- 4. Mendez v. Westminster -- 5. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 -- 6. Brown v. Board of Education, 1955 -- 7. Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- 8. Collected Excerpts. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection WGBH Educational Foundation 2002/2008 Instructional materials Teaching guides Resource units Decisions http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/osi04/soc/ush/civil/browndoc1/ text/html text/pdf 86.6 Kb Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection. A PDF viewer may be needed to view the documents. 1896/1946 United States The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. 20110629 151921