The statement that best describes the passage is:"Warren explains the students’ position, then describes how it has been previously handled by the courts."
The passage describes the legal context and the nature of the cases presented in Brown v. Board of Education, as well as the legal doctrine that had been previously applied. Therefore,the statement that best describes the passage is:"Warren explains the students’ position, then describes how it has been previously handled by the courts."
Following this introduction, the passage mentions that in previous cases, three-judge federal district courts had denied relief to the plaintiffs using the "separate but equal" doctrine established in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. The "separate but equal" doctrine, as explained in Plessy v. Ferguson, asserted that as long as the races were provided with substantially equal facilities and treatment, segregation was constitutionally permissible.
Brown v. Board of Education, written by Justice Warran
Minors of the Negro race, through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. In each instance, they had been denied admission to schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to race. This segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment. In each of the cases other than the Delaware case, a three-judge federal district court denied relief to the plaintiffs on the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine announced
by this Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537. Under that doctrine, equality of treatment is accorded when the races are provided substantially equal Which statement best describes the passage?
Warren explains the students’ position, then describes how it has been previously handled by the courts.
Warren provides reasons why segregation is permissible, then offers evidence to support the reasons.
Warren claims that the students don’t have grounds to sue, then gives reasons why not.
Warren gives a history of segregation in America, then explains how the students fit into that history.