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APUSH-30-B-1
The Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Education
Resources:
The Subversive Fifties
Relevant pages:
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society
Resource Type: Primary Source Linda Brown in class at the segregated school she attended before the Supreme Court decided her case and outlawed school segregation. Segregation: Brown v. Board of Education Resource Type: Primary Source The Supreme Court's decree calling for desegregation "with all deliberate speed," issued a year after the court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. America Since 1945—E-Seminar 5, Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society Resource Type: E-Seminar In Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society, the fifth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley focuses on the administrations of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Professor Brinkley compares and contrasts these two great figures of the 1960s and analyzes the social programs, such as the Great Society and the war on poverty, that became landmarks of the period. The Civil-Rights Movement Resource Type: Document-Based Question The civil-rights movement shifted from nonviolent civil disobedience to "black power." The rich selection of primary sources will help students explore the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the differences between the African American experience in the North and in the South, the role of government and political institutions, as well as global movements against imperialism. Brown v. Board of Education: The Results of Segregation Resource Type: Primary Source This landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 declared the segregation of black and white children in American public schools to be unconstitutional. The Counterculture Resource Type: Document-Based Question Although the decade of the 1950s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity, seeds of social discontent nevertheless permeated American society. This carefully crafted DBQ focuses on the intellectual and artisitic critics of the affluent society, as well as the origins of the women's and civil-rights movements. | |
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