- Collection:
- Teachers' Resources
- Title:
- Teaching with documents : documents related to Brown v. Board of Education
- Date of Original:
- 2016
- Subject:
- African Americans--Segregation
Civil rights movements--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
Education--United States
Segregation in education--United States
African Americans--Education
United States. Supreme Court
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc. - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- instructional materials
web sites
teaching guides - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Web site with information and selected documents about Brown v. Board of Education case before the United States Supreme Court. The case, decided on May 17, 1954, "made equal opportunity in education the law of the land." The site contains an essay, bibliography, timeline, biographies, and teaching activities. The primary sources documents include the dissenting opinion of Judge Waites in Briggs v. Elliott, a letter from President Eisenhower to E. E. Hazlett, and the Brown v. Board of Education judgement.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration
- Rights:
-
