Brown v. Board of Education

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, Nonprint Media has created a list of videos pertinent to the topic.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Brown, Oliver, 1918 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Busing for schoool integration -- United States -- History
De facto school segregation -- United States -- History
Discrimination in education -- United States
School integration -- 1950-1960
School integration -- United States
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Materials Available at Nonprint Media Services

Equality
Series: School, the Story of American Public Education; Episode 3, 1950-1980
LA212.S34 2001 no. 3 (VHS)
Summary: Third part of a series that describes the inequalities, based on gender and race, in American public education in the 1950s, issues raised by equal rights proponents, and changes made.

Terror and Triumph
Series: Rise and Fall of Jim Crow; Episode 4, 1940-1954
E185.61.R57 2002 pt. 4 (VHS)
Summary: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow" system originated and developed programs.

Awakenings
Series: Eyes on the Prize, Episode 1
E185.61.E94 1999 no. 1 (VHS)
Summary: The first episode of six discusses the history of segregation in the U.S., focusing on the south and the impact of the 1954 Supreme decision against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. Highlighted is the Emmett Till murder case and Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. Tells the story of events that helped to focus the nation's attention on the rights of Black Americans to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: the 1955 lynching in Mississippi of 14-year old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Ala. boycott. Also shows southern race relations at mid-century and witnesses the awakening of individuals to their own courage and power.

Fighting Back, 1957-1962
Series: Eyes on the Prize, Episode 2
E185.61.E94 1999 no. 2 (VHS)
Summary: Examines the law both as a tool for change and resistance to change, particularly as it relates to education. Covers the court cases of the late 1940s that led to the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, the nine black teenagers who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, and James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi.

The Road to Brown
E185.97.H83R63 1989 (VHS)
Summary: The story of a daring but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, who helped launch the Civil Rights Movement through his legal campaigns against the Jim Crow laws.

Separate but Equal
PN1997.S3363 1991 (Videodisc)
Summary: This film dramatizes the events leading to the landmark Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. Originally broadcast in 1991 with Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, and Cleavon Little.

Simple Justice
PN1992.8.F5 S557 1993 (VHS)
Summary: Another dramatization of the events leading to the landmark Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation, originally broadcasted as a segment of the television program "The American Experience." Docudrama stars Peter Francis James, James Avery, Andre Braugher, Scott Wentworth, Scott Whitehurst, William Allen Young, Sam Gray, Terry Alexander, Matthew Arkin, Thomas Brimm, Denise Burse-Mickelburg, Tom Ligon.

Clinton and the Law
Series: Civil Rights Movement, Primary Sources
E185.61.C594 2000 (VHS)
Summary: Originally broadcast on January 6, 1957 as a segment of the television program: See It Now. Clinton High was the first school in Tennesseee to desegragate, ehich led to chaos and violence. This program reports on the town's efforts in 1957 to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's mandate in the face of coercive opposition. Includes footage of the Rev. Paul W. Turner breaching brotherhood and John Kapser expounding in his rhetoric of intolerance. Other individuals add their views, describing community's successful struggle to reestablish law and order.

The Color Line on Campus
Series: Civil Rights Movement, Primary Sources
E185.61.C5943 2000 (VHS)
Summary: Originally broadcast on January 25, 1963 as a segment of the television program: Eyewitness. Almost nine years after the Brown decision, racial diversity was not normal in Sourthern universities. This 1963 program features interviews with James Meredith and other African-American students who broke ground and tradition at universities in the South. Faced with attitudes ranging from passive tolerance to violent rejection, each had achieved enrollment, but not acceptance.

After Ten Years: The Court and the Schools
Series: Civil Rights Movement, Primary Sources
E185.61.C5944 (VHS)
Summary: Originally broadcast on May 13, 1964 as a segment of a CBS News Special Reports. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling made it clear that segregation would not be tolerated and that states must comply with federal law. In this program, filmed ten years after Brown, new correspondents report on the mixed progress made toward integrating public schools in Nashville, New Rochelle, New Orleans, and Prince Edward County, Virginia. Stumbling blocks such as faculty segregation, busing, and segregational zoning are examined. A discussion featuring Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Georgia Governer Carl Sanders, and Ex-Secretary of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins concludes the program.

Kennedy v. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
LC214.322.A53K46 1988 (VHS)
Summary: Presents the 1963 film, Crisis, behind a presidential commitment, about the confrontation between John Kennedy and George Wallace over desegregation of Alabama schools. Re-edited to include thoughts of Nicholas Katzenbach and Vivian Malone. A segment from the television program: The American Experience.

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