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What is the term for the legal standard in cases related to racial discrimination that tends to invalidate almost all state laws that segregate racial groups?
 
  a. de facto segregation
  b. compelling state interest
  c. narrowly tailored
  d. separate but equal
  e. strict scrutiny

Question 2

Following the Plessy case the Supreme Court did not issue a landmark case concerning racial segregation until its 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. This case involved segregated school districts in Topeka, Kansas, but had very broad impact. What was the decision of the Court in Brown?
 
  a. In future cases the federal government, not the states, would decide issues of race relations.
  b. Segregated schools may exist as long as the teaching staff is integrated.
  c. Southern states have a history and tradition of segregation, so they may retain segregated schools, but other states must enforce integration.
  d. Segregated schools were inherently unequal and all public schools must admit African American children with all deliberate speed.
  e. Segregation is constitutional in high schools only.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: E

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D



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