Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. After the Civil War up to the end of the century, beliefs about the biological inferiority of African Americans declined in favor of more sociocultural explanations of inferiority.
2. After the Civil War, the South maintained a belief in the biological inferiority of African Americans, while the North dropped such notions.
3. Homer Plessy was the judge who mandated segregated facilities in the South at the end of the last century.
4. Beliefs about African Americans still emphasize their cultural inferiority.
5. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to overrule the "black codes" emerging in the South after the Civil War.
1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
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