Conflict at Little Rock

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Materials Needed:

Access to the World Wide Web. The lesson uses the following sites:

• Cornell Law Constitution site link to the Fourteenth Amendment

• WebChron: The Web Chronology Project on the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

• Find Law - text of the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

• African American history project information on Plessy v. Ferguson

• United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board (1954)

• Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School student newspaper The Tiger

• Text of a speech by President Eisenhower

• United States information service African American History site, analysis of Eisenhower speech

• PBS site on the Little Rock crisis

Center for Technology and Teacher Education, University of Virginia, This module was created by John K. Lee University of Virginia