Brown_v._Board_of_Education

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This guide is designed to help you research information about the //Brown v. Board of Education// Supreme Court case. It includes an index of scholarly sources that can be used, as well as a list of websites that may be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help.
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=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. The library holds many books about //Brown v. Board of Education//, some of which are listed below.

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Good search terms to use

 * United State Supreme Court
 * Civil Rights
 * Segregation
 * Desegregation
 * "Separate but equal"
 * //Plessy v. Ferguson//

Atlases
Ciment, James. //Atlas of African American History//. New York: Facts on File, 2001. Print.
 * Call Number: REF E185 .C55 2001**

Encyclopedias
Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. Africana: Civil Rights: An A-to-Z reference of the movement that changed America. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: REF E185.61 .A37 2004X**

Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. //Encyclopedia of African American culture and history//. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996. Print.
 * Call Number: REF E185 .E54 1996** (5 volumes)

Finkelman, Paul, ed. //Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present: from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century//. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: REF E185 .E5453 2009** (5 volumes)

Bradley, David and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, eds. //Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America//. Armonk: Sharpe Reference, 1998. Print.
 * Call Number: REF E185.61 .E544 1998** (3 volumes)

Electronic Books
[|Ebrary] The library has recently added 20,000 online books from the vendor Ebrary. This is the “community college” collection, of interest to students and faculty at 2-year colleges. All books are simultaneously available to all RCC users. Ebrary has numerous books about //Brown v. Board//, including the below books.

[|What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Case] Balkin, Jack M., ed. //What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The nation's top legal experts rewrite America's landmark civil rights case.// New York: New York University Press, 2001. Web.

[|Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education] Jackson, John P., Jr. //Science for Segregation: Race, law, and the case against Brown v. Board of Education//. New York: New York University Press, 2005. Web.

[|Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy] Patterson, James T. //Brown v. Board of Education: A civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy//. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Web.

Circulating Books
Rury, John L. //The African American Struggle for Secondary Education, 1940-1980: Closing the graduation gap.// New York: Teachers College Press, 2012. Print. Davis, Thomas J., //Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and inequality in Jim Crow America//. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2012. Ogletree, Charles J., Jr. //All deliberate speed: reflections on the first half-century of Brown v. Board of Education//. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: LC2717 .R87 2012**
 * Call Number: KF223.P56 D38 2012**
 * Call Number: KF4757 .O35 2004**

Walker, Anders. //The ghost of Jim Crow: how Southern moderates used Brown v. Board of Education to stall civil rights//. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: E185.61 .W17 2009**

Norton, James Oliver. //Landmarks of African American history//. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.
 * Call Number: E185 .H6444 2005**

Bell, Derrick. //Silent covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform//. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Print. Kluger, Richard. //Simple Justice: the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality//. New York: Vintage Books, 2004. Print. Irons, Peter H. //Jim Crow's Children: The broken promise of the Brown decision//. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: KF4155 .B38 2004**
 * Call Number: KF4155 .K55 2004b**
 * Call Number: KF4155 .I758 2004**

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

[|Academic OneFile]
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. You can find over 2,000 entries on the topic of the //Brown v. Board of Education//, including journal and magazine articles, books, podcasts, and videos.

[|African American Experience]
This database includes articles, images, and primary source documents dealing with //Brown v. Board of Education//.

[|American History Online]
American History Online has a //Brown v. Board of Education// topic page that includes the Supreme Court's ruling.

[|Credo Reference]
Through the Credo Reference database, RCC students can gain access to any of a possible 2,977,685 entries, including articles, books, news items, videos, and images. It contains over 800 entries about //Brown v. Board of Education//, including encyclopedia articles, quotations, and biographies of leading figures in the case.

[|Issues and Controversies in American History]
This database includes nearly 100 articles on //Brown v. Board of Education//, including a detailed time line of the events leading up to the case.

[|US History in Context]
US History in Context provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. This database has a //Brown v. Board of Education// topic page that includes reference, magazine, news, and academic articles, primary sources, videos, audio clips, and photographs.

=Streaming Videos= Films On Demand offers full length and segment videos on a wide range of topics. They offer a number of videos which discuss //Brown v. Board of Education//, some of which are listed below.

Films On Demand
[|Black/White & Brown: Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka] (88 minutes) This program connects viewers with the people, places, events, and ideas that shaped the landmark civil rights case. Interviewees include Cheryl Brown Henderson, daughter of lead plaintiff Oliver Brown; Zelma Henderson, who, until her death in 2008, was the only surviving //Brown// plaintiff; and the children of other plaintiffs, attorneys, and activists. Civil rights leader Roger Wilkins and other scholars provide additional expertise on the roles played by the NAACP and the U.S. Justice Department.

[|Integration and Busing: Complying with Brown in 1957] (31 minutes) 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.

[|Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights] (45 minutes) Representing the largest archive of oral histories of the Civil Rights Movement, this program offers a look at one of the defining social movements in American history—told through the personal stories of men, women, and children who lived through the turbulent period. To compile these hundreds of personal narratives, a group of journalists, photographers, and videographers embarked on a 70-day bus trip around the country. The trove of material they collected, from family photographs to emotional on-camera testimony, forms far more than a textbook history lesson. It emerges as a narrative document that defines and humanizes the movement’s trajectory while providing insight into the //Brown v. Board of Education// case, the saga of Martin Luther King, Jr., and more.

[|A Struggle for Educational Equality: 1950-1980] (55 minutes) This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: seventeen states had segregated schools; 1% of all Ph.D.s went to women; and "separate but equal" was still the law of the land. Interviews with Linda Brown Thompson and other equal rights pioneers bring to life the issues that prompted such milestones as //Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka// (1954), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title IX, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

=Web sites= There are many good web sites on the internet that provide information about //Brown v. Board of Education//. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Cornell University] has a very good guide.


 * [|Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site]
 * [|PBS's Brown v. Board of Education Discussion]
 * [|Cornell University: Selected Historic Decisions of the US Supreme Court: Brown v Board of Education]
 * [|Illinois Institute of Technology School of Law Brown v. Board of Education page]
 * [|Smithsonian Brown v. Board of Education exhibition]

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Research guide prepared on November 9, 2011 by Autumn Haag: ahaag@rcc.mass.edu; updated on March 26, 2014 by Katie Bliss.