Brown v. Board of Education - May 17

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Today is Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia, National Cherry Cobbler Day, National Pack Rat Day, National Walnut Day, National Pinot Grigio Day, National Ride a Unicycle Day, Stepmother's Day, Plant a Lemon Tree Day, World Baking Day,  and Telecommunication Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Today's Theme: Brown v. Board of Education

ON THIS DATE

• 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed
• 1875 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
• 1900 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is published.
• 1954 - The Supreme Court hands down a 9-0 decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
• 1973 - The U.S. Senate begins the Watergate hearings.
• 2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first state to allow same-sex marriage.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1749 - English physician Edward Jenner
• 1794 - British author Anna Brownell Jameson
• 1903 - Baseball player Cool Papa Bell
• 1912 - Inventor Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
• 1936 - Actor Dennis Hopper
• 1939 - Author Gary Paulsen
• 1965 - Singer-songwriter and producer Trent Reznor

SONG OF THE DAY 

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 

Nikki Giovanni - Rosa Parks

THEME:  Brown v. Board of Education

• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Segregated Schooling in South Carolina (2:47) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A More or Less Perfect Union - Brown vs. Board of Education (4:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Civil Rights Movement: Educational Equality (6:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - The Kennedy Center - Norman Rockwell + The Problem We All Live With - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 1: A Handful of Lawyers (6:57) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence (5:44) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins (6:44)- VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment (5:50) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement (5:26) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Resource Materials - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - In Southern Schools, Segregation & Inequality Aren’t History (6:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - 60 Years On, School Segregation Isn’t Yet American History (19:22) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Brown v. Board and the Return of Segregation? (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Future of America's Past - School Interrupted (27:02) - View
• Grades 7-12 - U.S. Courts - History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment - DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Separate and Unequal (53:41) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Charles Hamilton Houston: Laying the Groundwork for Integration (2:19) - VIEW, READ, DO

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