Challenges of Integration After Brown v. Board of Education | StoryCorps

Explore the roles that laws, institutions, and individuals play in changing society through the stories of two people who attended southern public schools in the 1950s and 1960s. These animated videos from StoryCorps show how the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling impacted individuals, schools, and communities in sometimes unexpected ways, as beliefs and attitudes of some local leaders and educators conflicted with federal law. Students will assess the extent to which the immediate impact of the Brown decision helped realize the democratic ideal of equality, and they will reflect on their own agency in bringing about social change.