Brown v Board A Selected Bibliography

The selected bibliography of materials for young people and resource materials for teachers is excerpted from the report of the Illinois Commission. It provides a listing of print materials and links to electronic resources.

We especially thank the following persons and repositories: Curator Robert Miller and Senior Archivist Michael Flug, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library; Kathleen Bethel, African American Studies Librarian, Northwestern University; and Brenda Billips Square, Director of Archives and Library, Amistad Research Center at Tulane University.

Key:	FIC = Fiction
	YA = Young Adult
	NF = Nonfiction
	BIO = Biography
Anderson, Wayne. Brown v. Board of Education : The Case Against Segregation.
	Rosen Publishing Group: 2003.
Aktinson, Pansye S. Brown v. Topeka: An African American’s View: Desegregation and
	Miseducation. Chicago: African American Images, 1993.
Association of the Study of African American Life and History. Before Brown, Beyond
	Boundaries. The Red Sea Press, 2004.
Bell, Derrick. Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
	Oxford: Oxford University, 2004.
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges. Scholastic,1999.YA NF

Chestnut, J.L., Jr. Black in Selma : The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. New York
	Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
Clotfelter, Charles T. After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation.
	Princeton University, 2004.
Coles, Robert. The Story of Ruby Bridges. New York: Scholastic, 1995. FIC
Continuing Challenge: The Past, and the Future of Brown v. Board of Education:
	a symposium. Evanston, Illinois: Integrated Education Associates, 1975.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963. Delacorte, 1995. FIC
Davis, Abraham L. and Barbara Luck Graham. The Warren Court. The Supreme Court
	Race and Civil Rights. Thousands Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications, Inc., 1995.
Dudley, Mark E. Brown v. Board of Education (1954): School Desegregation. New
	York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1994 (CHILDREN’S BOOK)
Duncan, Alice Faye. The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People.
	Bridge Water, 1995. NF
The Editors of Black Issues in Higher Education. The Unfinished Agenda of Brown VS.
	Board of Education. Wiley, 2004.
Fireside, Harvey. Brown v. Board of Education: Equal Schooling for All. Enslow, 1994.
Fireside, Harvey. Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision That Legalized Racism.
	Carroll & Graf, 2004.
_____________. Plessy v Ferguson : Separate But Equal. Enslow, 1997 YA NF.
Gibaldi, Joseph and Walter S. Achtert. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
	3 rd Ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1988: 86-135.
Goldman, Roger and David Gallen. Thurgood Marshall : Justice For All. New York
	: Carol & Graf Publishers, Inc. 1992.
Good, Diane L. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone. Children’s
	Press, 2004. YA NF
Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for
	the Civil Rights Revolution. (No city listed) Basic Books. 1994.
Haskins, Jim. Separate But Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle. New York:
	Scholastic Press, 184.(CHILDREN’S BOOK)
Irons, Peter. Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. New
	York: Viking 2002.
Jackson, Florence, The History of the Black Man in America , 193201954. New Tyork,
	NY, F. Watts, 1975
King, Casey. Oh Freedom: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People
	Who Made it Happen. Knopf, 1997. NF
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1976.
Kurland, P. and Casper, G., eds. Landmark Brief and Arguments of the Supreme Court
	of the United States. 2 Vols. Arlington, VA: University Publications of America, Inc., 1975.
Levine, Ellen. Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories.
	Putnam, 1993. YA NF
Lucas Eileen . The Struggle for Equalization. New York. 1992.
Lusane, Clarence. The Struggle for Equalization. New York. 1992.
McCord, John H. (ed). With All Deliberate Speed: Civil Rights Theory and Reality.
	Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press. 1969.
McKissack, Patricia. The Civil Rights Movement in America : From 1865 to the Present.
	(2 nd ed.) Children’s Press, 1991. NF
________________Goin’ Someplace Special. New York: Atheneum Books, 2001. FIC
Miller, Jake. Brown v Board of Education of Topeka: Challenging School Segregation in
	the Supreme Court. Power Kids Press, 2004. NF
Mitchell, Margaret King. Granddaddy’s Gift. Bridgewater. 1997. FIC
Morrison, Toni. Remember: The Journey to School Integration. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
	Company, 2004. NF
Myers, Walter Dean. Glory Fields Scholastic, 1994. YA FIC
____________I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	New York: HarperCollins, 2004. BIO
Olgetree, Jr., Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of
	Brown v Board of Education. Norton, 2004.
Parks, Rosa. Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth. Lee & Low, 1996. NF
Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its
	Troubled Legacy. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Peltason, J.W. 58 Lonely Men: Southern Federal Judges and School Desegregation.
	Urbana and Chicago. Ill: University of Illinois Press. 1971.
Raskin, Jamin, B. We The Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About Students.
	Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2000.
Smith, R.C. They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County , Virginia . 1951-1964.
	University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
Strother, David B. Evidence. Argument and Decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
	1958
Tackach, James. Brown v. Board of Education. San Diego, CA, Lucent Books, 1998.
	(CHILDREN’S BOOK)
Taylor, Mildred D. Gold Cadillac. Dial Books< 1987. FIC
Thomas, Joyce Carol, Ed. Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone. New York: Hyperion
	Books for Children, 2004. NF
Tushnet, Mark, V. The NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregated Education.
	1925-1950. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Turner, Glennette Tilley. “Thurgood Marshall ,” Follow in Their Footsteps. New York:
	Puffin, 1999.
______________“Martin Luther King, Jr.” and “Rosa Parks.” Take A Walk in Their
	Shoes. New York: Puffin, 1992. BIO
Walter, Mildred Pitts. Lothrop, Girl on the Outside. Lee & Shepard Books, 1982. YA
	FIC
Whitman, Mark, ed. Removing a Badge of Slavery: The Record of Brown v. Board of
	Education. Princeton, NJ and New York, NY Marcus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1993.
Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall : An American Revolutionary. New York, NY,
	Random House, Inc, 1998.
Wolters, Raymond. The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation. The
	University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
Print Resources for Teachers
Association of the Study of African America Live and History. Before Brown, Beyond
	Boundaries. The Red Sea Press, 2004.
Bell, Derrick. Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform.
	Oxford University, 2004.
Clotfelter, Charles T. After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation.
	Princeton University, 2004.
The editors of Black Issues in Higher Education, The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v.
	Board of Education. Wiley, 2004.
Fireside, Harvey. Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision That Legalized Racism.
	Carroll & Graf, 2004.
Olgetree, Jr., Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of
	Brown v Board of Education. Norton, 2004.
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