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Subtopic: Legal Developments in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Brown: A Landmark Case This video segment describes the players and events of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and how it galvanized the Civil Rights movement as well as white resistance.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Constance Baker Motley In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Justice Constance Baker Motley recalls her role as an NAACP attorney in landmark school desegregation cases.	9-12	PDF Document
A Country Preacher: Rev. De Laine In this video segment produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, the Reverend Joseph De Laine's son and daughter describe his role in the first public school desegregation lawsuit.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Documenting Brown 1: The Fourteenth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment established the equal protection clause, later used in key desegregation cases.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 2: Plessy v. Ferguson The Supreme Court's 1896 ruling legalized the "separate but equal" doctrine that sanctioned segregation.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 3: Gong Lum v. Rice The Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 4: Mendez v. Westminster This 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	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 5: Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 The Supreme Court's landmark opinion overturned its earlier ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated schools unconstitutional.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 6: Brown v. Board of Education, 1955 The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown II reflects the struggle between federal and state governments on how and when school desegregation would occur.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 7: Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped enforce the Brown ruling, a decade later.	6-12	PDF Document
Gideon v. Wainwright Learn how the case of Gideon v. Wainwright brought about sweeping change in the American justice system in this video segment from The Supreme Court.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Griswold v. Connecticut The “right to privacy” as a legal issue is the topic of this video segment from The Supreme Court.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Harry Briggs, Sr. and Eliza Briggs In 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	PDF Document
Brown Reactions: Black Educators This 1954 statement, issued by a group of black educators, strongly endorses the Supreme Court's Brown ruling.	6-12	PDF Document
Brown Reactions: Editorials This sampling of newspaper editorials from the mid-1950s reflects the range of public opinion and responses to the Brown decision.	6-12	PDF Document
Brown Reactions: Judge Brady This 1954 statement from Tom Brady, a founder of the White Citizens' Council movement, expresses opposition to the Brown decision.	6-12	PDF Document
Brown Reactions: Zora Neale Hurston Zora 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	PDF Document
Mendez v. Westminster: Desegregating California's Schools Sylvia Mendez recalls the conditions that led Mexican Americans to sue for desegregation in the 1940s in this segment from Mendez vs. Westminster: Para Todos los Niños/For All the Children, from KOCE-TV.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Implementing Brown Point/counterpoint commentary on the president's actions after the Brown ruling; from American Experience: "Eisenhower."	6-12	QuickTime Video
Kenneth Clark In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, psychologist Kenneth Clark describes his research that illustrated the impact of racism on African American children.	9-12	PDF Document
Miranda v. Arizona In this video from The Supreme Court, learn about the Court's sweeping decision in response to police brutality and terror tactics.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Reconsidering Brown In these video segments, leading historians and legal scholars reflect on the promise of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, and why it remains unfulfilled.	9-12	HTML Document
Re-Examining Brown This lesson explores the historical complexity of the struggle to desegregate schools, the geographic scope of racism, conditions that prompted activism and litigation, and how laws have changed over time.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Rehnquist’s Views on the Miranda Decision This video from the series The Supreme Court presents Justice Rehnquist’s views on the landmark case Miranda v. Arizona.	9-12	QuickTime Video
The Road to Brown This video segment looks at history of the NAACP's efforts to convince the Supreme Court that segregated schools were unconstitutional, leading up to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education cases.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Segregated Schooling in South Carolina In this video segment, produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, Joseph De Laine Jr. and Ophelia De Laine Gona describe conditions in segregated South Carolina schools.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 1: A Handful of Lawyers This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" profiles Charles Houston's strategy for attacking segregation and how he trained the legal team that eventually argued the Brown case.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in the Brown case.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" reenacts Thurgood Marshall's closing statement in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 6: Justice Warren Reads the Decision This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the dynamics and arguments among the Supreme Court justices who ruled in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Strategies for an Equal Education Students examine the inequality in education faced by African Americans in the 20th century. They review the Fourteenth Amendment, identify and examine strategies used to overcome discrimination, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each.	6-12	Lesson Plan
Understanding and Applying the Miranda Decision In this lesson students learn about the landmark Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and apply the principles of Miranda to subsequent cases.	9-12	Lesson Plan