The NAACP Chose Education as the Issue Over Which to Fight

question 38

Multiple Choice

The NAACP chose education as the issue over which to fight segregation because _______.

• A) segregation was widespread only in education
• B) segregated education was particularly disastrous for blacks because it limited their potential
• C) the Supreme Court had already suggested segregation in education was suspect
• D) it was one of several subjects they brought to the Supreme Court but the only one on which they won
• E) it was suggested to them by a member of the Supreme Court

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