Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
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- Jul 27 2010 7:55 PM
Bob Benoit
This resource was matched by a member of the Brokers of Expertise Standards Matching Team.Nice National Archives Lesson focused on Brown v Board
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This lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to the 14th Amendment, primarily the equal protection clause, as well as to the powers of the Supreme Court under Article III of the U.S. Constitution. On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier and served as a catalyst for the expanding civil rights movement during the decade of the 1950s. Less
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Grade: 5 to 12
Topics: United States History, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies
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HSS.11.USHGCCTC.11.10.2 Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution o...
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