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With an even hand : Brown vs. Board at fifty

Online exhibit mounted by the Library of Congress documenting Brown v. the Board of Education.

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Date of Original
1954/2004

Subject
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States
Segregation in education--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc.

People
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961--Trials, litigation, etc.

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5

Medium
online exhibitions
photographs

Type
StillImage, Text

Description
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. This online version of an exhibition held at the Library of Congress from May 13 to November 13, 2004, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark judicial case. The exhibition features more than one hundred items from the Library's extensive holdings on this subject, including books, documents, photographs, personal papers, manuscripts, maps, music, films, political cartoons, and prints., 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
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
Library of Congress

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1. Norman Rockwell to John A. Morsell, December 3, 1963

Creator:: Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978
Date of Original:: 1963-12-03
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

2. Dark laughter. Now I aint so sure I wanna get educated, 1963.

Creator:: Harrington, Oliver W. (Oliver Wendell), 1912-
Date of Original:: 1963-09-21
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

3. Life magazine, September 6, 1963

Date of Original:: 1963-09-06
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

4. Civil rights march in Washington, D.C., 1963

Creator:: Leffler, Warren K.
Date of Original:: 1963
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

5. The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama), Monday, October 1, 1962

Creator:: Birmingham News
Date of Original:: 1962-10-01
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

6. John A. Morsell, Assistant to NAACP Executive Secretary to President John F. Kennedy requesting the assistance of the federal government in the case of James Meredith, September 21, 1962

Creator:: Morsell, John A.
Date of Original:: 1962-09-21
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

7. "Segregation's citadel unbreached in 4 years," Washington Observer, Sunday, May 11, 1958

Creator:: Washington Post Company
Date of Original:: 1958-07-11
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

8. Fables of Faubus

Creator:: Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979
Date of Original:: 1957
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

9. Telegram. NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins to Herbert Brownell concerning the expulsion of Autherine Lucy, February 7, 1956

Creator:: Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
Date of Original:: 1956-02-07
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

10. Time magazine, September 19, 1955. Cover

Date of Original:: 1955-09-19
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

11. Anson Phelps Stokes to Channing Tobias, Chairman of the NAACP, offering congratulations on the NAACP's victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

Creator:: Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958
Date of Original:: 1954-05-18
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

12. Felix Frankfurter to Earl Warren, May 17, 1954

Creator:: Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965
Date of Original:: 1954-05-17
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress