60 Years Since Brown v. Board

Saturday marked the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), Google Scholar link.
After six decades, many students of color are in schools with few white students. In the Northeast, over half (51.4%) of black students are in schools whose student bodies are 90-100% minority. See

• Niraj Chokshi, The Most Segregated Schools May Not Be in the States You'd Expect, Wash. Post, May 15, 2014
• Emily Badger, Housing Segregation Is Holding Back the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education, Wash. Post, May 15, 2014

For lots more statistics and analysis, see:

• Gary Orfield et al., Brown at 60: Great Progress, a Long Retreat and an Uncertain Future (UCLA Civil Rights Project, May 15, 2014). A press release about this report is here.

Segregation by race is not the only issue. Communities are increasingly segregated by income too:

• Kendra Bischoff & Sean F. Reardon, Residential Segregation by Income, 1970-2009 (2013) (Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis)

For historical materials, see

• Library of Congres, Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand" (2004)
• Seattle University Law Library, Brown v. Board of Education: A 50th Anniversary Exhibit (2004)
• Separate But Equal?: The Road to Brown (part of UMKC Law School's Exploring Constitutional Conflicts web project).

And to look at the issues locally, see Segregated Seattle, a collection of materials from the Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project at the UW.