About landmarkcases.org
This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case. The "Resources" section features basic building blocks such as background summaries and excerpts of opinions that can be used in multiple ways. The "Activities" section contains a range of short activities and in-depth lessons that can be completed with students. While these activities are online, many of them can be adapted for use in a one-computer classroom or a classroom with no computer.

Depending upon the amount of time you have to teach the case, you may want to use one or more of the "Resources" or "Activities" in conjunction with one or more of the general teaching strategies. These general teaching strategies include moot court activities, political cartoon analysis, continuum exercises, and Web site evaluation.

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Feel free to experiment with these materials!

Resources
About landmarkcases.org
 
Teaching Recommendations
Based on Your Time

 
Background Summary
and Questions

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Diagram of How the Case Moved Through the Court System
 
Biographies
Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall
 
Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion
Brown I

   
Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion
Brown II

 
Full Text of the Majority Opinion

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Activities
    The Case
Does Treating People Equally Mean Treating Them the Same?
 
Classifying Arguments for Each Side of the Case
 

How a Dissent Can Presage a Ruling: The Case of Justice Harlan
 

Immediate Reaction to the Decision: Comparing Regional Media Coverage
 
Political Cartoon Analysis

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    After the Case
All Deliberate Speed?
 
Case Study of Integration -- Little Rock
 
If You Were a Supreme Court Justice. . .
 
Was the Promise of Brown Fulfilled?


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Additional Resources
The Smithsonian's Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
 
Mix It Up

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