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• Roberto Alvarez vs. the Lemon Grove School Board
• Mendez vs. Westminster and the California Board of Education
• Sweatt vs. Painter
• McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State Regents
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Rodriguez vs. San Antonio Independent School District
• U.S. vs. Texas
• Lau vs. Nichols
• Plyler vs. Doe
• Edgewood vs. Kirby
• Hopwood vs. The State of Texas
• Gratz vs. Bollinger
• Grutter vs. Bollinger

Six Goals of Educational Equity
Developed by the South Central Collaborative for Equity
http://www.idra.org/scce/5goals.htm

Desegregation Terms
Excerpted from It's a Matter of Race: Race Relations in the Desegregated Setting by the IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity
http://www.idra.org/scce/RaceIssues.htm#Definitions

Laws and Court Cases about National Origin Equity
Excerpted from Federal Statutes and Directives Regarding National Origin Students by the IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity
http://www.idra.org/scce/OriginIssues.htm#Laws

Forms of Bias in Textbooks and Instructional Materials
Excerpted from Sex Stereotyping and Bias: Their Origin and Effects by the IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity
http://www.idra.org/scce/SexIssues.htm#Forms

How Desegregation Changed Us: Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society
Were efforts to desegregate the public schools worthwhile? This report answers that question and others through the voices of more than 500 graduates, educators, advocates, and local policy makers who were directly involved in racially mixed public high schools in different communities 25 years ago. The central finding of this report is that school desegregation fundamentally changed the people who lived through it, yet had a more limited impact on the larger society. Public schools faced enormous challenges during the late 1970s as educators tried to facilitate racial integration amid a society that remained segregated in terms of housing, social institutions, and often employment. Nonetheless, desegregation made the vast majority of the students who attended these schools less racially prejudiced and more comfortable around people of different backgrounds. After high school, however, their lives have been far more segregated as they re-entered a more racially divided society.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=4774

Online Movies: Toni Morrison Reflects on the Journey to School Integration
Students and teachers can take an online journey with Toni Morrison through the tumultuous time of school desegregation, sparked by the Brown vs. Board of Education decision 50 years ago. Access to this program is free of charge. Two brief movies narrated by this Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author introduce viewers to her book, Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004), and reveal photographs and motion-picture images of the events and emotions felt by both sides of the issue.
http://www.teachingbooks.net/spec_athr.cgi?name=Morrison%2C%20Toni

History of Latino School Desegregation Efforts
Latino Report: On this date of the landmark school desegregation case, MALDEF has issued an in-depth report on the history of Latino school desegregation efforts.
http://www.maldef.org/news/press.cfm?ID=221&FromIndex=yes

Interactive Civil Rights Chronology
Here you will find a chronology of important events in the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans from 1502, when the first African slaves were brought to the New World, to the year 2000. This website is a companion to Professor Balkin's What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (NYU Press 2001), with the history of and the legal issues involved in Brown v. Board of Education.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/brown/

Institute for Educational Leadership – Brown and Equity Online Resources
The Institute for Educational Leadership web site has additional resources online including articles, discussions, classroom resources, personal reminiscences, and more.
http://www.iel.org/brownvboe.html.