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Which of the following was a step the United States government took to ensure equal rights in the 1960s?

establishment of extensive welfare programs


implementation of women’s suffrage


decrease in public spending


end of segregation in public places

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I believe it would be the end of segregation in public places.
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The correct answer is: "end of segregation in public places"

End of segregation was achieved in Brown v. Board of Education, which was a case that led to the enactment of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in 1954.

The case was about the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" lemma that was accepted in a former decision enacted by the US Supreme Court in 1896 in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Such decision allowed the proliferation of segregated schools under the belief that, if facilities were equal in quality, such education system was not violating the equality of rights provision that had been guaranteed for all US citizens by the Equal Protection Clause, included in the Reconstruction Amendments to the US Constitution.

Brown v. Board of Education overturned the abovementioned previous Supreme Court decision and declared segregation unconstitutional.

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