Books*

• Irons, Peter H. Jim Crow's Children: The Broken promise of the Brown decision. New York: Viking, 2002. Call number: KF4155 .I758 2002, E. S. Bird Library (4th floor).
• Losen, Daniel J. and Gary Orfield, editors. Racial Inequity in Special Education Cambridge, MA: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University: Harvard Education Press, 2002. Call number: LC3981 .R29 2002, E. S. Bird Library (4th floor).
• Orfield, Gary. Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education/ Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton, and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation. New York: New Press, 1996. Call number: LC212.62 .O72 1996, E. S. Bird Library (4th floor).
• Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. Call number: KF4155 .P38 2001, E. S. Bird Library (4th floor).
• Prendergast, Catherine. Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. LC2731 .P72 2003, E. S. Bird Library (4th floor).

  *Book titles suggested by Beth Ferri, Associate Professor, Teaching and Leadership, School of Education

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Bradley, David and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Warmonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference, 1998. Call number: REF E185.61 .E544 1998. E. S. Bird Library (1st floor)
• Grossman, Mark. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1993. Call number: E185.61 .G895 1993. E. S. Bird Library (3rd floor)
• Jost, Kenneth, editor. The Supreme Court A to Z. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998. Call number: REF KF8742 A35 S8 1998. E. S. Bird Library (1st floor)
• Lowery, Charles D. and John F. Marszalek, editors. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. Call number: E 185 .61 E54 1992. E. S. Bird Library (3rd floor)
• Martin, Waldo E., Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. Civil Rights in the United States. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. Call number: REF E184.A1 C47 2000. E. S. Bird Library (1st floor)
• Mauro, Tony. Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2000. Call number: REF KF4549 .M334 2000. E. S. Bird Library (1st floor)
• Raffell, Jeffrey A. Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegration: The American Experience. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Call number: LC 212.52 R34 1998. E. S. Bird Library (4th floor)
• Unger, Harlow G. Encyclopedia of American Education. New York: Facts on File, 1996. Call number: LB 17 .U54 1996. E. S. Bird Library (4th floor)

Web Sites for Educators

• ABA Commission on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, from the American Bar Association
• Brown@50 Fulfilling the Promise, from the Howard University School of Law
• Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, from the National Park Service
• Brown v. Board of Education Online Archive, from the University of Michigan Library
• Civil Rights and the Press, from the Syracuse University Symposium
• Horizons of Opportunities: Celebrating 50 Years of Brown v. Board of Education May 17, 1954-2004, from the National Education Association (NEA)
• Judicial Branch Resources on GPO Access, for information about the Supreme Court
• Landmark Cases/Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
• Lesson Planning Article: Brown v. Board of Education Celebrates 50 Years, from Education World
• Syracuse University Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board
• Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan: Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education, from NARA (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

Databases*

• America: History and Life: Index and abstracts providing historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
• Education Abstracts: Index of more than 400 English-language education journals and yearbooks. Indexing from June 1983 to the present, abstracts from August 1994; updated monthly.
• ERIC (FirstSearch): Index and abstracts of educational materials available since 1966. Indexes published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education).
  

  *Available off-campus to SU ID holders; please see Policy on Access to Licensed Web Resources for additional information.

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