- Collection:
- Teaching with Historic Places
- Title:
- Brown v. Board : five communities that changed America
- Date of Original:
- 2003/2018
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Education
Civil rights movements--United States
Segregation in education--United States
Discrimination in education--United States
School integration--United States
United States. Supreme Court
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African American students--United States
Brown, Oliver, 1918- --Trials, litigation, etc. - People:
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
- Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Missouri, City of Saint Louis, St. Louis, 38.62727, -90.19789
United States, Virginia, Prince Edward County, Farmville, 37.3021, -78.39194 - Medium:
- instructional materials
web sites
lesson plans
teaching guides
maps (documents)
texts (document genres)
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Web site with a lesson plan about the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. Five cases from Kansas, Virginia, South Carolina, Delaware, and Washington D.C. were eventually consolidated into the Supreme Court case; the lesson plan focuses on resources from the five communities involved. The Web site includes historical background and initial questions, a map of segregation in the United States, readings about school segregation, images relating to the court cases, activities, and supplementary resources.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/brown-v-board-five-communities-that-changed-america-teaching-with-historic-places.htm
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- United States. National Park Service
- Rights:
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