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Kaplan, Howard – Social Education, 2013
Fifty years ago, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." In exploring the story of the events behind the essay, and the Supreme Court case that resulted, "Walker v. Birmingham", 399 U.S. 307 (1967), educators will find a pedagogically powerful lens through which to review the seminal…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Social Studies, Civil Rights, Racial Segregation
Clark, E. Culpepper – 1993
This book explores George Wallace's June, 1963 defiance of desegregation at the University of Alabama campus. After a tense confrontation, President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard and Wallace backed down, allowing Vivian Malone and James Hood to become the first African Americans to enroll successfully at their state's flagship…
Descriptors: Black Students, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, College Admission