Links and Resources

The history of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling and its impact on school desegregation

• Separate is Not Equal by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center
• Brown at 50 by Howard University School of Law
• Brown v. Board of Education by National Parks Service
• Brown v. Board of Education: Digital Archive by the University of Michigan Library
• The Legacy of School Busing by National Public Radio

The case against race-based school assignments

• Pacific Legal Foundation
• The Hoover Institution
• Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom

Research on school desegregation

• How Desegregation Changed Us by Amy Stuart Wells, et. al:
• The Civil Rights Project by the University of California Los Angeles

Desegregation stories across the country

• Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History by the University of Washington
• Louisville school desegregation and the 2007 Supreme Court ruling by the Courier-Journal
• Busing in Boston: Looking Back by Harvard Graduate School of Education
• The Dorothy Counts Story by the Charlotte Observer
• Irene McCabe and her battle against busing by the Detroit News

Related American RadioWorks Web sites

• Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
• Remembering Jim Crow

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