segregation in education

In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, becomes the only Black student at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York, and while the students are pleased she is there, the faculty is not. Includes facts about Frederick and Rosetta's lives.

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.

Charles J. Ogletree reflects on what it was like to grow up during the civil rights movement, focusing on Brown v. Board of Education. He examines the increasing legal challenges of affirmative action, connects these challenges to the issues of reparations, and also asserts that the American judicial system is ambivalent toward education inequalities. In support of the Common Core Learning Standards. (CCLS).

In 1951, Barbara Rose Johns organized a strike to protest the inferior conditions of her all-black high school. The case became part of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Provides a historical overview of the case that desegregated public education in the United States.

Examines ideas and arguments behind the case that brought about equal schooling for all.

Describes the race relations in America leading up to the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, the process by which Brown worked its way up to the Court, and how a decision was reached by the Court.

A history of African-American education, tracing the struggles of African-Americans for equal education rights from colonial times through the late twentieth century.

Chronicles the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education and examines questions regarding the case's influence on civil rights and desegregation in the years since it was fought.

Explores the differences between schools for the rich and public schools for the poor and argues for a reform of the public education system so that poor children have the educational opportunities that the rich do.