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The Brown v. Board of Education Trial / Julia Garbus, editor.

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Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, 2015.

Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.

Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.

Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.

9780737773071 (hbk.)

0737773073 (hbk.)

Perspectives on modern world history.

193 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

The road to the landmark "Brown" court rulings / West's Encyclopedia of American Law -- The US Supreme Court codifies "separate by equal" into law / Henry Billings Brown -- In two landmark rulings, the US Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional / Earl Warren -- Southern legislators vow to oppose desegregation / Members of the US Congress -- "Brown" ends the "shame of segregation" / Max Freedman -- Court order can't make the races mix / Zora Neale Hurston -- Despite disappointments, "Brown" improved African Americans' lives / David Garrow -- School segregaration and the achievement gap continue almost sixty years after "Brown" / Lawrence D. Bobo -- Black schools provided better educational opportunities before desegregation / Jonathan Tilove -- Forced school busing caused racial turmoil in Boston / Bridget Murphy -- The fight for racial balance in schools is still relevant / David L. Kirp -- Continuing racial imbalance in schools is not a problem / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom -- African Americans are not to blame for the failures of "Brown" / Michael Eric Dyson -- "Brown" has influenced human rights internationally / Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- School integration in Eastern Europe contrasts sharply with the US experience / Jack Greenberg -- School life for an African American boy before desegregation / William E. Cox -- The sister of a "Brown" plaintiff remembers student strikes for better school conditions / Joan Johns Cobb -- A lawyer representing Kansas recalls his Supreme Court argument / Paul E. Wilson -- An NAACP lawyer discusses "Brown" and its legacy / Jack Greenberg and Gilbert Holmes, interviewed by M. Dion Thompson -- Black educators in Topeka adjust to desegregation / Merrill Ross and Barbara Ann Ross -- Facing a mob, an African American teen helps integrate a high school / Minnijean Brown Trickey.

"Using primary and secondary sources, each volume provides background information on a significant event in modern world history, presents the controversies surrounding the event, and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by the event. All volumes in the series include an annotated table of contents, a world map, a chronology, a glossary of key terms, a bibliography, and a subject index"--

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