This module is for Sources
Resources
- The Southern Manifesto and “Massive Resistance” to Brown v. Board of Education Read more about the “Massive Resistance” to Brown that took place in Virginia and other Southern states.
- What was Brown v. Board of Education The Brown case was made up of five legal appeals that challenged segregation in public schools. Read more about those cases on this website.
- Massive Resistance Go deeper into Virginia's efforts to resist the integration of schools.
- Civil Rights: The Little Rock School Integration Crisis Check out primary sources related to the integration of Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
References
Adwar, C (2014, May 30). Charts show that segregation in US schools is still a major problem. Yahoo! Finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/charts-show-segregation-us-schools-155204153.html.
Bates, D. (1957, December 17). Letter to Roy Wilkins on the treatment of the Little Rock Nine. Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0127p1s.jpg.
June-Friesen, K. (2013, September/October). Massive resistance in a small town. HUMANITIES, 34 (5). https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/septemberoctober/feature/massive-resistance-in-small-town.
Maryland Public Television, (2025). Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect. [Video]
Maryland Public Television. (2007). The Fourteenth Amendment - Part II. [Video] PBS LearningMedia. https://mpt.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.style.fouramenii/the-fourteenth-amendment-part-ii/.
Maryland Public Television. (2004). White resistance. [Video]. PBS LearningMedia. https://mpt.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.resist/white-resistance/
Civil Rights Movement Archive. (n.d.). Report on segregation education in Mississippi . https://www.crmvet.org/docs/630000_ms_education-rpt.pdf.
Stephanie. (2018, May 29). Separate but equal’ in photographs. National Archives: Education Updates https://education.blogs.archives.gov/2018/05/29/davis-photographs/.
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights. (2008, July 8). James Meredith and Ole Miss.. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4M8wmoPto.
National Museum of African American History & Culture. (n.d.). The struggle against segregated education Smithsonian Institution. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/struggle-against-segregated-education.
