Segregated Schools in the North

 James William Webb Jr. vs. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago (1961)

Candace Gwin

Summer Fellowship 2008

National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA )

Great Lakes Region, Chicago

Lesson 5: Comparing and Contrasting

Objective: Students will be able to compare and contrast two court different court cases.

Materials:

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/
This site gives information & primary documents relating to the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision

www.landmarkcases.org/brown/pdf/brownvboard.pdf
Report 1964

Venn Diagram

1. The students can use the “Report 1964” file and the archived documents from the website and draw some comparisons and contradictions between the two cases.

2. The students can have some discussions about why some of the similarities regarding the racial imbalance of schools existed after Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and why the same imbalances exist today.