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Documenting Brown 1: The Fourteenth AmendmentThe Fourteenth Amendment established the equal protection clause, later used in key desegregation cases. |
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Documenting Brown 2: Plessy v. FergusonThe Supreme Court's 1896 ruling legalized the "separate but equal" doctrine that sanctioned segregation. |
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Documenting Brown 3: Gong Lum v. RiceThe Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation. |
6-12 |
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Documenting Brown 4: Mendez v. WestminsterThis 1946 federal court ruling marked a victory for Mexican Americans and chipped away at the "separate but equal" doctrine, declaring segregated schools based on national origin unconstitutional. |
6-12 |
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Documenting Brown 5: Brown v. Board of Education, 1954The Supreme Court's landmark opinion overturned its earlier ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated schools unconstitutional. |
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Documenting Brown 6: Brown v. Board of Education, 1955The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown II reflects the struggle between federal and state governments on how and when school desegregation would occur. |
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Documenting Brown 7: Civil Rights Act of 1964The Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped enforce the Brown ruling, a decade later. |
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Documenting Brown: Collected ExcerptsThis collection of excerpts from legislation and court decisions documents key phases of the legal struggle to gain and implement equal education. |
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Harry Briggs, Sr. and Eliza BriggsIn this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Harry and Eliza Briggs describe their experience in the first school desegregation case, Briggs v. Elliott. |
6-12 |
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Brown Reactions: Black EducatorsThis 1954 statement, issued by a group of black educators, strongly endorses the Supreme Court's Brown ruling. |
6-12 |
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Brown Reactions: EditorialsThis sampling of newspaper editorials from the mid-1950s reflects the range of public opinion and responses to the Brown decision. |
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Brown Reactions: Judge BradyThis 1954 statement from Tom Brady, a founder of the White Citizens' Council movement, expresses opposition to the Brown decision. |
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Brown Reactions: Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston's 1955 letter to the editor expresses her belief that the Brown decision would prove detrimental to the educational interests of black students. |
6-12 |
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