The Bricks Before Brown v. Board of Education: A Digital Map

FAIN: FEL-282992-22

Marisela Enedina Martinez-Cola
Utah State University (Logan, UT 84322-1400)

Research and creation of a digital, interactive map on school desegregation since 1849.

This project involves creating an interactive, digital map for K-12 social studies teachers and their students to learn about the history of school desegregation in the United States beginning 1849. The B3 Map is a thoughtfully curated, interactive, on-line map with over 100 school desegregation cases filed before Brown v. Board of Education, inclusive of 14 cases filed by Mexican American, Chinese American, and Native American plaintiffs. Each case will have links to photographs, documentaries, news articles, court documents, digital archives, and websites that can be used to develop history lessons and engage tell a more inclusive story of the legal, historical battle for educational equality in the United States. It is a fight which began 100 years before the famed Brown v. Board.