Landmark Cases from the Supreme Court

This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case. The "Resources" section features basic building blocks such as background summaries and excerpts of opinions that can be used in multiple ways. The "Activities" section contains a range of short activities and in-depth lessons that can be completed with students. While these activities are online, many of them can be adapted for use in a one-computer classroom or a classroom with no computer.

http://www.landmarkcases.org/brown/home.html

"We conclude that the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

—Chief Justice Earl Warren      

Maryland Humanities Council: Brown V. Board of Education 50^th Anniversary

The Maryland Humanities Council is a private, educational, non-profit organization, which promotes public participation in the humanities and public humanities programming throughout Maryland. The Council brings Maryland residents and humanities scholars together so that they may learn from one another

    Context and Legacy

    http://www.mdhc.org/brown_vs_board.html

    Calendar of Events

    http://www.mdhc.org/calendar_brown.html 

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Although initially affiliated with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, LDF has been an entirely separate organization since 1957.

LDF's mission is to transform the promise of equality into reality for African Americans and, ultimately, all individuals in the areas of education, political participation, economic justice and criminal justice.

As LDF's first Director-Counsel, Marshall led the legal team that won Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school desegregation case, in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. The Brown case ended officially enforced public school segregation and overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine of legally sanctioned discrimination.

 Unequal Education- 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education

http://www.brownmatters.org/press_education.html

Chronology

http://www.brownmatters.org/chrono.html

http://www.brownmatters.org/chrono_detailed.html

Public Broadcasting Service

PBS, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is a private, non-profit media enterprise owned and operated by the nation's 349 public television stations. A trusted community resource, PBS uses the power of noncommercial television, the Internet and other media to enrich the lives of all Americans through quality programs and education services that inform, inspire and delight.

Brown v. Board of Education Issue: Racial Segregation in Public Schools

http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/brown.htm