29 results for "Brown vs. Board of Education"" between $5.00 and $75.00

The book traces the lengthy court litigations, highlighting the pivotal role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and including incisive portraits of key players, including co-plaintiff Oliver Brown, newly appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren, NAACP lawyer and future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, and Justice Felix Frankfurter, who recognized the crucial importance of a unanimous court decision and helped produce it. The authors simply but powerfully narrate...

Release Date: 2008-08-12

Films that were made prior to the Civil Rights Era tend to display the views of the day within them, not simply the status of race in the time represented within such works. This paper assesses the concepts of race relations as are presented in the films Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles; 1931), Birth of the Nation (D.W. Griffith; 1915), and Within Our Gates (Oscar Micherux; 1920).

Title: 1954 One Room, One Book (50th Ann. of Brown vs. Board of Education)

1954: One Room- One Book (50th Ann. of Brown vs. Board of Education)

Dismantling Desegregation explains the consequences of resegregation and offers direction for a more constructive route toward an equitable future. By citing case studies of ten school districts across the country, Orfield and Eaton uncover the demise of what many feel have been the only legally enforceable routes of access and opportunity for millions of school children in America.

Description Table of Contents Author Bios "A wise...authoritative book" on America's return to segregation. Foreword Preface Introduction Leading Decisions on Desegregation 1896-1995 Turning Back to Segregation p. 1 Plessy Parallels: Back to Traditional Assumptions p. 23 The Growth of Segregation: African Americans, Latinos, and Unequal Education p. 53 Unexpected Costs and Uncertain Gains of Dismantling Desegregation p. 73 Broken Promises: Resegregation in Norfolk, Virginia p. 1...

Black, White and Brown : The Hard Lessons Learned Forty Years after Brown Vs. Board of Education

“Separate but Not Equal: Brown vs. the Board of Education,” a group performance developed by three sixth-graders. Includes a copy of the process paper. (VHS availible upon request- quantities limited)

As the Civil War ended and Slavery did, too, the question of African American’s freedom did not. African Americans had been given their freedom from slavery but not their freedom from segregation. In 1896 after the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case, the Supreme Court found that segregation, “separate but equal”, in public facilities was not against the Constitution. “Separate schools for blacks and whites became a basic rule in southern society.” All that was about to change.

Pages: 194, Paperback, Webster's Digital Services

Product Description: Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court public school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED chronicles the experiences of two towns involved in the lawsuit (which represented six separate cases), and provides insight into the legacy of the decision. The push to integrate public schools began with the activism of ordinary people and lead to a major civil rights battle. For example, the Reverend Joe Delaine of Clarendon...