PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools. [5:50]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. [6:44]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" reenacts Thurgood Marshall's closing statement in Brown v. Board of Education. [5:26]
Other
Telling Their Stories: Civil Rights Struggle
Watch and listen to interviews of former students from Burgland High School in McComb, Mississippi, drawing on their experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. Burgland High School was involved in a large student walk-out in 1961.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Thurgood Marshall and "Brown v. Board of Ed."
A short site from NPR that showcases Marshall on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Hear the entire segment from NPR's Morning Edition, hear audio clips from interviews, and see photos of Marshall. Site also includes...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Country Preacher: Rev. De Laine
In this video segment produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, the Reverend Joseph De Laine's son and daughter describe his role in the first public school desegregation lawsuit. [2:36]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Brown v. Board of Education
In the Brown v. Board of Education case, a father fought the issue of racial segregation in the schools. He lost and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Brown v. Board of Education Part 2
The Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v Board of Education (1954) ended school segregation but was difficult to enforce.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Today we learn why the Supreme Court separate but equal laws to be unconstitutional. Listen to the history of Linda Brown and Brown v. Board of Education.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:the Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education was a turning point in the fight against demonstration, but the struggle against inequality had just begun.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civic:role of the Courts Part 2: Enforcing Brown v. Board of Education
Today we discuss difficulties with enforcing the Brown v. Board of Education decision.