Question 15 • MCPSS AL-Grade 6 United States Studies: The Industrial Revolution to the Present - Summer School 2026
Read the excerpt from the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . . .[The courts must issue] orders and decrees . . . to admit to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed the parties to these cases.Brown v. Board of Education,Chief Justice Earl Warren,1954–1955
Answer
A
Segregated schools had become unusual after recent court orders.
B
Schools already admitted African American students whose skills were equal to those of white students.
C
Separate schools for African American students were almost always unequal to white schools.
D
Public schools almost always tried to be racially nondiscriminatory.