BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION
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Friedman, Leon, ed. Argument: The Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1952-55. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1969.
KF4155 .B87 1969
Main Library - Research Collections | Law Library

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, and LaMar P. Miller, eds. Brown v. Board of Education : The Challenge for Today's Schools New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
KF4155 .B76 1996
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Sarat, Austin, ed. Race, Law, and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
KF4155.A2 R33 1997
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Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Knopf, 1976.
KF4155 .K667
Main Library - Research Collections | African American Culture Center Library | Education Library

Balkin, Jack M. What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
KF228.B76 W48 2001
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Tushnet, Mark V. Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
KF4755 .T87 1994
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Bland, Randall Walton. Private Pressure on Public Law: The Legal Career of Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1934-1991. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1993.
KF8745.M34 B55 1993
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Marshall, Thurgood. Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2001.
KF8745.M34 A4 2001
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Reference Books

Contemporary Black Biography. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992.
DT18 .C66
Main Library - Undergraduate Reference | African American Culture Center Library Reference

Martin, Waldo E., and Patricia Sullivan, eds. Civil Rights in the United States. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.
E184.A1 C47 2000
Main Library - Undergraduate Reference | Main Library - Research Collections Reference | African American Culture Center Library Reference

Williams, Michael W., ed. The African American Encyclopedia. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1993.
E185 .A253 1993
Main Library - Undergraduate Reference | Main Library - Research Collections Reference | African American Culture Center Library Reference

Lowery, Charles D., and John F. Marszalek, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
E185.61 E54 1992
Main Library - Undergraduate Reference | Main Library - Research Collections Reference | Business/SPEA Library | African American Culture Center Library Reference

Bradley, David, et. al., eds. The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference, 1998.
E185.61 .E544 1998
Main Library - Undergraduate Reference | African American Culture Center Library Reference | Law Library

The Civil Rights Movement. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2000.
E185.61 .C6124 2000
Main Library - Undergraduate Reference

Government and Legal Documents

United States. Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2001.
Also available online at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS16522.
AE 2.110:107-41
Main Library - GIMSS | Law Library - Government Publications

NAACP 1940-55. Legal file. Schools -- Kansas: Topeka -- Brown v. Board of Education. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1995.
E185.61 .P274 reel 17, fr. 0419-0448
E185.61 .P274 reel 17, fr. 0868-0898
E185.61 .P274 reel 18, fr. 0134-reel 24
Main Library - GIMSS

Video

Simple Justice. Videocassette. PBS Video, 1993.
KF4155 .S55 1993
Main Library - Kent Cooper Room

Thurgood Marshall: Portrait of an American Hero. Pro. Wayne C. Sharpe. Videocassette. PBS Video, 1985.
KF8745.M34 T48 1985
Main Library - Kent Cooper Room

Web Sites

Columbia Law: The Year of Brown v. Board of Education: maintained by Columbia Law School

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site: maintained by the National Park Service

BrownVBoard.org: maintained by the Washburn University Law School

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1537409.html: NPR: The Supreme Court and 'Brown v. Board of Ed.' The Deliberations Behind the Landmark 1954 Ruling

The Supreme Court Opinion: maintained by FindLaw.com

LandmarkCases.org: a teaching resource

50 Years : Brown v. Board: maintained by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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