Brown v. Board of Education Electronic Field Trips
In these electronic field trips produced by the National Museum of American History, viewers are given a 20 minute tour by the curators of the exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, followed by a 30 minute videotaped question and answer session about the Brown v. Board of Education case and its legacy.
National Standards
United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)
- Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) View Details
- Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877); Standard 3: How various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed (NSH (5-12) USHE5S3)
- Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) View Details
- Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900); Standard 2: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity (NSH (5-12) USHE6S2)
- Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930) View Details
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Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930); Standard 2: The changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War I (NSH (5-12) USHE7S2)
Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930); Standard 3: How the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression (NSH (5-12) USHE7S3) - Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) View Details
- Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s); Standard 4: The struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties (NSH (5-12) USHE9S4)
- Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) View Details
- Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present); Standard 2: Economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States (NSH (5-12) USHE10S2)
Historical Thinking (Grades 5-12)
- Historical Thinking Standard 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation View Details
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C. Analyze cause-and-effect relationships. (NSH (5-12) Th3C)
D. Draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issues. (NSH (5-12) Th3D) - Historical Thinking Standard 5: Historical Issues-Analysis and Decision-Making View Details
- F. Evaluate the implementation of a decision. (NSH (5-12) Th5F)
Keywords
Brown v. Board of Education; Supreme Court; Black History; African-American history; segregation; desegregation; racism; thirteenth amendment, fourteenth amendment, fifteenth amendment; equal protection under the law; voting rights; Jim Crow laws; Plessy v. Ferguson; separate but equal; education; equal opportunity; Howard University Law School; NAACP; Houston, Charles H.; Marshall, Thurgood; integration; Clarendon County, South Carolina; Topeka, Kansas; Farmville; Prince Edward County, Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; Washington, D.C.; 1950?s; Davis, John; Warren, Earl
