Primary Sources

The School Desegregation Cases
Board of Education, City of Topeka. Record of Minutes, 1928 Through 1956. Administration Building, Unified School District 501. Topeka, Kansas.

Brady, Paul L. A Certain Blindness: A Black Family’s Quest for the Promise of America. Atlanta: ALP Publishing. 1990.

Brown Family Collection. Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas.

Case files #144-16-84, #144-16-147. Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Office, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice. Washington, D.C.

Caldwell, Peter F. Oral history interview with James C. Duram and Robert Bunting. Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Abilene, Kansas. 5 June 1970.

Clark, Kenneth Bancroft. Papers. Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

Crowder, Ralph and Jean Vandelinder. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Oral History Collection. Center for Historical Research, Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka, Kansas. Cooperative effort sponsored by the Washburn University School for Law, Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research, and the Kansas State Historical Society.

Friedman, Leon, ed. Argument: The Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1952-1955. New York: Chelsea House, 1969.

"Kansas NAACP: Topeka Chapter, 1940-1955." Microfilm Division, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Microfilm.

"Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas." Legal case file. Microfilm Division, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Microfilm.

Records of the Attorney General’s Office. "Segregation" and "Brown vs. Board of Education" Files. State Agency Records. Center for Historical Research, Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka, Kansas.

Records of the Governor’s Office. Governor Edward F. Arm (1951-1955): "General Correspondence" and "Subject" Files. State Agency Records. Center for Historical Research, Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka, Kansas.

Schopler , Ernest H., ed. Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1953. Book 98, Lawyer’s Edition. Rochester, N.Y. : The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1954.

Scott, Charles S. Oral History Interview by James C. Duram and Robert Bunting. Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Abilene, Kansas. 25 June 1970.

Scott, Charles Sheldon. Papers. Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library. University of Kansas Libraries. Lawrence, Kansas.

Sobeloff, Simon E. Papers. Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

Speer, Hugh. The Case of the Century: A Historical and Social Perspective on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, With Present and Future Implications. Kansas City: University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1968.

Wilson, Paul E. A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

_________. Oral history interview by James Duran. Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Abilene, Kansas. 19 June 1970.

_________. Papers. Manuscript Collections, Center for Historical Research, Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka, Kansas.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Basic Books, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1994.

Marshall, Thurgood. Papers. Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Collection. Papers. Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.

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