Brown v. Board of Education

From slavery to segregation

The NAACP's plan to dismantle segregation

The journey to the Supreme Court

The arguments and the decision

Implementation "with all deliberate speed"

Crisis in Little Rock

Brown's legacy in education

Brown's legacy in civil rights

Daisy Bates

Kenneth B. Clark

John W. Davis

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Orval Faubus

Charles Hamilton Houston

Thurgood Marshall

Earl Warren

A black man recalls attending a segregated school in the South

"The effects of segregation and the consequences of desegregation: a social science statement"

The U.S. government's amicus curiae brief in the Brown v. Board case

The U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board decision

"All God's chillun," a New York Times editorial

The U.S. Supreme Court's Brown II decision

The Southern manifesto

A member of the Little Rock Nine recalls the effort to integrate Central High School

President Eisenhower explains his decision to send federal troops to Little Rock

An historian reflects on Brown v. Board of Education, fifty years later.