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Teachers' Domain Brown vs. Board of Education

The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Educational Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.

Production Credits

Project Management

Karen Cariani, Project Director

Ted Sicker, Executive Producer

Denise Blumenthal, Educational Productions Director

Peter Pinch, Director of Technology

Christian Wise, Lead Designer

Content Production

Susan Levene, Producer

Kelly Lawman, Associate Producer

Courtney Michael, Associate Producer

Melanie MacFarlane, Content Producer/Editor

Arthur Smith, Timeline Content Producer

Julie Ecker, Rights Clearances

Geoffrey Birmingham, Additional Editing

Anna Fort, Timeline and Image Researcher

Lance Douglas, Camera

Web Production, Design, and Development

Bob Donahue, Lead Developer

Jon Alper, Director of Technology, Digital Encoding

Lisa Rosenthal, Designer

Mary Ellen Gardner, Post Production Coordinator

Joe Brandt, Developer

Jamie Biggar, Senior Developer

Jason Kahn, Systems Manager

Business Management

Maria Constantinides, Business Manager

Adriana Sacchi. Business Manager

Project Marketing

Deb Burns

Eric Friedman

Amy Kirsch

Wendy Metz

Advisors

Dr. Leslie Brown, Washington University

Dr. Horace Huntley, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Vivian Johnson, Boston University

Dr. Gerald Gill, Tufts University

Dr. Steven Cohen, Tufts University

Lesson Plans

Linda Mizell

Patricia Kelly

Copyeditors

Jill Farinelli

Katy Allen

Julie Wolf

Narrator

Judy Richardson

Indexer

Jordan Berson

Interns

Lucia Carballo

Max Felker-Kantor

Project Evaluator

EDC

Project Partners:

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Wayne Coleman, Head of Archives Division

Laura Anderson, Assistant Archivist

Dr. Horace Huntley, Historian

Carol Wells, Chief Financial Officer

Michael Holland, Organizer

Washington University

David Rowntree, Special Media Collections Archivist

Gilles Bissonnette, Background Essays

Alison Carrick, Archivist Assistant

Special Thanks

Tom Hanchett, Staff Historian, Levine Museum of the New South

Dr. Erma Glasco Davis, National Dunbar Alumni Association of Little Rock, Arkansas

Bennett Singer, Producer/Director of Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

Sandra Robbie, Producer of Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños

Avon Kirkland, Producer of Simple Justice

Special thanks to AFTRA and AF of M for granting permission to use segments produced with participation of their members.