Waubonsee Community College

Brown v. Board of Education, Diane Telgen

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index

contains biographical information

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Diane Telgen

Defining moments

Examines Brown v. Board of Education, using a narrative overview, biographies and primary sources

Important people, places, and terms -- Chronology -- pt. 1. Narrative overview -- Prologue -- From slavery to segregation -- The NAACP's plan to dismantle segregation -- The journey to the Supreme Court -- The arguments and the decision -- Implementation "with all deliberate speed" -- Crisis in Little Rock -- Brown's legacy in education -- Brown's legacy in civil rights -- pt. 2. Biographies -- Daisy Bates : Civil Rights activist and advisor to the Little Rock Nine -- Kenneth B. Clark : researcher into the effects of segregation on African Americans -- John W. Davis : lead counsel for South Carolina before the Supreme Court in the Brown cases -- Dwight D. Eisenhower : 34th President of the United States -- Orval Faubus : Governor of Arkansas during school desegregation crisis at Little Rock -- Charles Hamilton Houston : counsel to the NAACP and architect of NAACP desegregation strategy -- Thurgood Marshall : lead LDF attorney for Brown v. Board and first African American Supreme Court Justice -- Earl Warren : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Brown v. Board decision -- pt. 3. Primary sources -- A black man recalls attending a segregated school in the South -- "The effects of segregation and the consequences of desegregation : a social science statement" -- The U.S. government's amicus curiae brief in the Brown v. Board case -- The U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board decision -- "All God's chillun," a New York Times editorial -- The U.S. Supreme Court's Brown II decision -- The Southern manifesto -- A member of the Little Rock Nine recalls the effort to integrate Central High School -- President Eisenhower explains his decision to send federal troops to Little Rock -- An historian reflects on Brown v. Board of Education, fifty years later

Brown versus Board of Education