Brown v. Board of Education Online Archive

Bibliography

Books

Bates, Daisy. The long shadow of Little Rock, a memoir. New York, David McKay Co. [1962]

Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors don't cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

Borgsdorf, Linda Ann Ruester. Ann Arbor, Michigan: An Historical Analysis of Board of Education Decisions on School Desegregation Issues. 1980. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Michigan

Brown, Robert R. (Robert Raymond). Bigger than Little Rock. Greenwich, Conn., Seabury Press, 1958.
Coles, Robert. Children of Crisis. New York: A Delta Book, 1967. A psychiatrist's personal account of the effects of the desegregation struggle on both Black and White children. A warm, humane discussion.

---. Farewell to the South. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1972. A further discussion on the effects of desegregation on the people of the South.

Friedman, Leon, ed. Argument: The Complete Oral Argument before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1952-1955. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1969.

Egerton, John. Black public colleges: integration and disintegration. Nashville, Race Relations Information Center, 1971.

Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the courts: how a dedicated band of lawyers fought for the civil rights revolution. Basic Books, c1994.

Hornsby, Benjamin F. Jr. Stepping stone to the Supreme Court: Clarendon County Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Dept. of Archives & History, c1992.

Kluger, Richard. Simple justice: the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality. New York: Knopf, 1976, c1975.

Martin, Waldo E., Jr. Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1998.

Michael, W. E. 1904-The age of error. New York, Vantage Press [1957]

Orfield, Gary Susan E. Eaton, and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation. Dismantling desegregation: the quiet reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: New Press, c1996.

Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Miller, Lorin. The petitioners: the story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. New York: Pantheon Books,1966

Smith, Bob. They closed their schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1951-1964. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965

Tushnet, Mark V. The NAACP Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Fulfilling the letter and spirit of the law : desegregation of the nation's public schools / a report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, August 1976. Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976.

Vandever, Elizabeth J. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: anatomy of a decision. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, 1971.

Wolters, Raymond. The burden of Brown: thirty years of school desegregation. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1984.

Films and Videos in the University of Michigan Library Collection

After ten years the court and the schools /
CBS News; producers, Philip Scheffler, William Peters; directed by Norman Gorin. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
Summary: The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ruling made it clear that segregation would not be tolerated and that states must comply with federal law. In this program, filmed ten years after Brown, news correspondents report on the mixed progress made toward integrating public schools in Nashville, New Rochelle, New Orleans and Prince Edward County, Virginia. Stumbling blocks such as faculty segregation, busing and segregation zoning are examined. A discussion featuring Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Georgia Governor Carl Sanders and Ex-Secretary of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins concludes the program.
Performers/Participants: Reporters: Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Martin Agronsky, Charles Kuralt, Harry Reasoner.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Shelved in: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL)

Blacks in America life in the North
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Films for the Humanities and Sciences Series: With all deliberate speed? : a retrospective on racial integration, 1979
Summary: Filmed in 1979, correspondent Ed Bradley travels to his hometown of Philadelphia, to assess how African-Americans have been faring 25 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to outlaw public school segregation. Quality education, employment opportunities, fair and adequate housing and political representation are addressed, as are issues of illiteracy, de facto segregation and racial violence.
Performers/Participants: Correspondent, Ed Bradley.
Credits: Exec. producer, Howard Stringer; producer/director, Philip Burton, Jr.
Notes: Originally aired on the CBS program, CBS Reports on July 25, 1979.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Shelved in: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL)

School, the story of American public education: A struggle for educational equality, 1950-1980
Produced by Sara Patton and Sarah Mondale:Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2001.
Summary: A four part documentary on the history of public education in the
United States. Part 3: This program shows how impressive gains in education
masked profound inequalities: seventeen states had segregated schools.
Beginning with the 1950s, this program examines the issues that prompted such
milestones as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, Title IV, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)

Blue eyed
Produced by Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag ; written and directed by Bertram Verhaag in cooperation with Jane Elliott. Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1996.
Summary: Jane Elliott conducts a workshop where an arbitrarily selected group of
individuals is targeted to experience prejudice and bigotry. Based on the
blue eyed-brown eyed exercise.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 26866-H

The Essential blue eyed 50 minute trainer's edition and 36 minute debriefing
Produced by Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag ; written and directed by Bertram Verhaag. Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1999, c1996.
Summary: Jane Elliott conducts a diversity training workshop where an arbitrarily selected group of individuals is targeted to experience prejudice and bigotry. The workshop is based on the blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 29449-H

School colors
Producers, Scott Andrews, Stephen Olsson, Inez M. Robinson-Odom ; director, Scott Andrews. Published: [S.l.] : Documentary Consortium of Public Television Stations ;
[Alexandria, VA] PBS Video, c1992.
Summary: This in-depth documentary looks at a turbulent year at Berkeley High School in California, focusing on teachers, students, and parents struggling with the question of whether diversity will enrich American society or tear it apart.
Notes: Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Originally broadcast on Frontline television program on PBS stations.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 25208-H

Simple justice
Executive producer, Avon Kirkland ; co-producers, Yanna Kroyt Brandt, Preston Holmes ; director, Helaine Head ; story by John McGeevey, Avon Kirkland, Peter Cook.
Published: Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, 1993.
Summary: Recounts the legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Notes: Based on: Simple justice / by Richard Kluger (New York : Knopf, 1975) .
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 23806-H -23808-H

Separate but equal
Producer, George Stevens, Jr. ; executive producers, George Stevens, Jr., Stan Margulies ; writer and director, George Stevens, Jr. Published: Los Angeles : Republic Pictures Home Video [distributor], 1991.
Summary: The year is 1950 ... and America is divided between black and white. Schools, restaurants, trains and buses ... even drinking fountains cannot be shared by both races. Although slavery has been outlawed for nearly a century, segregation is legal. But white and Negro facilities are separate and unequal …and the tension has reached a breaking point for the blacks of Clarendon County, South Carolina. When their request for a single school bus is denied by white school officials, a bitter, violent and courageous battle for justice and equality begins ... putting black against white and friend against neighbor all across the country.
Performers/Participants: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 23004-H

The Road to Brown the untold story of "the man who killed Jim Crow"
University of Virginia. Published: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel [distributor], c1990.
Summary: Documentary on segregation in the South and the legal campaign against it. Profiles black lawyer Charles Houston, whose work in attacking the segregation laws ("Jim Crow") ultimately led to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case.
Performers/Participants: Steven Anthony Jones.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 11270-H

Awakenings 1954-1956
Blackside, Inc.Published: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, 1987.
Series: Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years ; 1
Summary: This first episode of six discusses the history of segregation in the U.S., focusing on the south, and the impact of the 1954 Supreme Court decision against segregation in Brown vs. Board of Education. Highlighted is the Emmett Till murder case and Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.
Performers/Participants: Julian Bond.

Fighting back 1957-1962
Blackside, Inc. Published: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, 1987.
Series: Eyes on the Prize : America's civil rights years ; 2
Summary: Focuses on segregation in education in the southern United States. It highlights two specific tests of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1954 against segregation - the case of the Little Rock Nine in 1957 (the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas), and James Meredith's enrollment as the first black at the University of Mississippi in 1962.
Performers/Participants: Julian Bond.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 15000-H

The Lemon Grove incident
Producer, writer, Paul Espinosa ; director, Frank Christopher. Published: New York, N.Y. : Cinema Guild [distributor], 1985.
Summary: Focusing on one of the earliest school desegregation cases, uses dramatizations, archival footage, and recollections of witnesses to examine the response of the Mexican-American community in Lemon Grove, Calif., to a 1930 school board attempt to create a segregated Mexican school in the district.
Performers/Participants: Bill Brinsfield, Navarre Perry, Ann Richardson, Gail West, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Leon Singer, Luisa Vargas, Doug Jacobs.
Notes: In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 10589-H

220 blues
Published: King Screen Productions, 1970.
Summary: Dramatizes a situation in which a young black student is living successfully in an integrated system, until he meets a black militant student who causes him to question his identity.
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: MOVIE 5206-F

Who speaks for the South?
Published: [New York] : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002.
Series: Integration in the South's public schools
Summary: The court order integrating Georgia public schools conflicted with the state constitution, prompting much debate regarding state's rights. In this 1960 news special Edward R. Murrow reports on the issue of racial segregation in the state's schools, focusing on the proceedings of the School Study Committee, a public forum in which residents of Georgia's ten Congressional districts voiced their opinions presenting a wide and sometimes ominous range of views. Murrow also interviews the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ralph McGill, Atlanta's mayor William Hartsfield and Georgia Governor S. Ernest Vandiver.
Notes: "...Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on May 27, 1960."
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 34339-H

Integration complying with Brown in 1957: a production of CBS News.
Published: [New York] : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002.
Series: Integration and busing : the early years
Summary: In 1957, the eyes of America were on Little Rock, where the compulsory desegregation of Central High School was front-page news. But what about the broader picture? How successful had integration efforts in the South been in the three years following the Brown decision? This program, filmed in that year, brings together a panel of newsmen from the Southern Education Reporting Service to assess -- against the backdrop of anti-integration violence -- the overall progress being made in complying with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling.
Notes: Duration given on container: 53 min. "...Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on September 29, 1957."
Location: FILM & VIDEO LIB (Room 2178, UGL) (Restricted Access)
Call No: VIDEO 34338-H

Journal and Newspaper Articles

The Journal of Negro Education devoted the Summer, 1954 issues to Desegregation. The issue No. 3 is titled , Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education, Summer, 1954, pp. 201-399.

This issue is available on the electronic database JSTOR. In addition,

The Journal of Negro Education devoted other issues to the subject of school desegregation.

No. 3, The Courts and Racial Integration in Education, Summer, 1952, pp. 229-444
No. 3, The Desegregation Decision--One Year Afterward, Summer, 1955, pp. 161-404

No. 3, "Educational Desegregation", 1956, Summer, 1956, pp. 203-368

No. 3," Desegregation and the Negro College", Summer, 1958, pp. 209-435

No. 3, "Education and Civil Rights in 1965", Summer, 1965, pp. 197-379

No. 1, "Desegregation in the 1970's: A Candid Discussion", Winter, 1978, pp. 1- 112

No. 3, "Persistent and Emergent Legal Issues in Education: 1983 Yearbook", Summer, 1983, pp. 187-374

No. 3, "Brown v. Board of Education at 40: A Commemorative Issue Dedicated to the Late Thurgood Marshall", Summer, 1994, pp. 271-503

No. 3, "The Role of Social Science in School Desegregation Efforts: The St. Louis Example", Summer, 1997, pp. 195-349

Popham, John N. "Segregation: South Looks Ahead: States Plan to Move Slowly in Changing School Set-Up." Special to The New York Times, New York Times; May 23, 1954. E5.

Bracker, Milton. "School Desegregation: A City's Case History: Baltimore Incidents are traced to ignorance of part of parents," Special to The New York Times. New York Times; October 10, 1954 E4

Samuels, Gertrude. "School Desegregation: A Case History," New York Times Sunday Magazine; May 8, 1955 page 9.

Web Sites

Michigan.gov: The Official State of Michigan Web Site
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-52956--,00.html

Fannie Richards and the Integration of the Detroit Public Schools

Brown Foundation For Educational Equity, Excellence and Research
http://brownvboard.org/
This site is a resource for information and source material about Brown v. Board of Education and related topics.

The Robert Russa Moton Museum
http://www.moton.org/
The Robert Russa Moton Museum is committed to the preservation and positive interpretation of the history of civil rights in education, specifically as it relates to Prince Edward County and the role its citizens played in America's struggle to move from a segregated to an integrated society. The Museum will be operated to promote positive discussion of integration and to advance the positions that ensure racial harmony
The 1951 student strike at Moton High School "set in motion events that forever changed the landscape of American education, and arguably marked the start of the modern civil rights movement."--Don Baker, *The Washington Post Magazine*, Mar. 4, 2001, p. 10.

Sweatt v Painter Archive
http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/sweatt/

This archive contains historical records linked to the Sweatt v. Painter litigation. These materials include university records, litigation materials, newspapers, and oral histories. For display, most of these records are text files, although some manuscripts are graphics files.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/brown_v_board_documents/brown_v_board.html

This site contains the actual Supreme Court decision in PDF form

University of Michigan
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