Question

Under the separate but equal doctrine in the 1920s and 1930s, the amount of money Texas spent on black students was ________ the amount spent on white students in public schools.

a. the same as b. much higher than c. lower than
d. rapidly catching up to

Answer 1

Under the separate but equal doctrine in the 1920s and 1930s, the amount of money Texas spent on black students was typically **lower than** the amount spent on white students in public schools. This doctrine allowed for racial segregation in public facilities, including schools, but required that they be "separate but equal" in quality, although in practice, the facilities and resources provided to black students were often inferior to those provided to white students.

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