myPerspectives English Language Arts
myPerspectives English Language Arts
1st Edition
Savvas Learning Co
ISBN: 9780133338805
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Page 366: Comprehension Check

Exercise 1
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In these cases the plaintiffs are seeking equal opportunity for public schools and this would mean to abolish the equal but separate law that was passed after the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
Exercise 2
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The separate but equal doctrine set the standard that schools would be separated based on race but that these schools would all have equal opportunity. However, this was not actuated because the white schools had far more opportunities and a better education than the schools for black children. The document says that most black children were illiterate, how could this be equal?
Exercise 3
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The fourteenth amendment gives citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US, including former slaves, and it guarantees all citizens “equal protection o the laws”. So, separation and the fourteenth amendment, according to the court in this document, do not align because “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” (paragraph 22).
Exercise 4
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Brown v Board of Education was a supreme court case in which the supreme court unanimously voted that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendment and thus the separate but equal doctrine that was made during the Plessy v Ferguson case was abolished.
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