In the Years Before Brown V

question 66

Multiple Choice

In the years before Brown v.Board of Education (1954) , the Supreme Court

• A)overturned forms of segregation while maintaining the separate but equal rule.
• B)had struck down forms of segregation through the commerce clause, but not the Fourteenth Amendment.
• C)consistently refused to strike down any form of segregation.
• D)had refused to hear cases on segregation.

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