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Which answer most correctly analyzes the political developments that led to desegregation in the United States?

A) The Freedmen’s Bureau started a grassroots campaign to petition state legislatures to eliminate Jim Crow laws from their constitutions.
B) The practices of institutionalized discrimination and racism were eroded when Brown v. the Board of Education overturned Plessey v. Ferguson.
C) Desegregation was eliminated when President Kennedy used executive power to uphold the Equal Protection clause of the Fifteenth Amendment.
D) The United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1962 that led to the elimination of desegregation throughout the country.

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B) The practices of institutionalized discrimination and racism were eroded when Brown v. the Board of Education overturned Plessey v. Ferguson.
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Answer:

B) The practices of institutionalized discrimination and racism were eroded when Brown v. the Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.

Explanation:

In the Plessy v. Ferguson Case (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated public facilities were legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.

However, the Brown v. Board of Education Case (1954) proved that those facilities were unequal and that they, in fact, were a form of institutionalized discrimination that instilled a sense of inferiority to African Americans and thus they violated the 14th Amendment, which guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws. This case rendered invalid the decision of the Plessy v. Ferguson case and led to the end of the desegregation laws of the United States for regarding them unjust and racist.

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