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1. Brown v. Board of Education: A Selected Annotated Bibliography” by William H. Manz
2. The Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Site features curriculum materials on their web site for the range of grades from Kindergarten through Secondary School. [1]
3. This lesson is based on the National Historic Landmark Survey theme study entitled Racial Desegregation in Public Education in the United States. Brown v. Board of Education: Five Communities that Changed America was written by Brenda Olio, former Teaching with Historic Places Historian, and Caridad de la Vega, Historian for the National Park Service National Historic Landmarks Survey. The lesson was edited by the Teaching with Historic Places staff. This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into the classrooms across the country.[2]
4. The Library of Congress maintains a web presence based on an exhibition entitled With and Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty with instructional resources.[3]
5. The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History maintains online resources resulting from a special exhibit observing the 50th Anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.[4]
6. The National Archives makes documents of historical record associated with the Brown v. Board of Education case accessible with additional information to support standards based instructional activities. [5]
7. A set of learning activities focused on the social and historical context leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision are organized and maintained here by the Library of Congress.[6]
8. In this two-day lesson plan, students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregation.[7]
9. Examine web accessible exhibits of the original documents in the Brown v. Board of Education court case among a selected group of milestone documents of U.S. History maintained by the National Archives.[8]
10. A transcript and audio recording is available here in which John A. Stokes discusses the educational environment in Prince Edward County, Farmville, Virginia during the period leading up to the Students Strike at R.R. Moton High School. The interview is part of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries Digital Collections.[9]