The One of the Following That Is NOT a Fact

question 54

Multiple Choice

The one of the following that is NOT a fact regarding racial and ethnic inequality in the United States today is that:

• A) since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, increasing numbers of African Americans have joined the middle class by attaining a college education, professional occupations, and new homes
• B) blacks are much more likely than whites to live in poverty
• C) immigrants from Mexico seek economic opportunity but have among the lowest levels of educational attainment of all groups, and many live in extreme poverty
• D) de jure segregation ended about two decades before the end of de facto segregation
• E) blacks are more likely than whites to be socially isolated from good schools and economic opportunity.

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