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Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
URL: http://www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm

Description:
This National Historic Site, which consists of "Monroe Elementary School, one of the four segregated elementary schools for African American children in Topeka," Kansas, commemorates "the landmark [1954] Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools." The Web site provides information about visiting the school, material about the main lawsuit and related cases, and a bibliography.

Publisher:
National Park Service

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- History
Black History Month
Segregation in education

LII Database Information:
Record 952 created by Sybil Finemel on 05/08/2004
Last modification on 09/30/2009
Published: 05/08/2004  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/952