Question

Black students were forced to attend separate schools from white students ________ the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision.

a) before
b) after
c) despite
d) following

Answer 1

The answer is 'before'; Black students attended separate schools before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools. The correct option is a.

Step-by-step explanation:

Black students were forced to attend separate schools from white students before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision. The correct answer is a) before.

This landmark decision known as Brown v. Board of Education overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling from 1896, which had established the doctrine of "separate but equal".

The Brown v. Board of Education case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, as they were inherently unequal, violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The correct option is a.