All of the following are examples of minority groups organizing to oppose discrimination and segregation during the war except
a. Black defense workers in the Bay area organized against union discrimination, resulting in a 1945 state supreme court ban on the practice of forcing African Americans into separate auxiliaries as a condition of employment.
b. African American and Mexican American voters helped elect a significant number of minority candidates to local city councils during the war years.
c. Latinos in Orange County filed a lawsuit regarding segregation in public schools, resulting in a ruling in their favor in 1947by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
d. Chinese Americans lobbied against discriminatory exclusion laws with moral ammunition from their dedicated war service, and Congress responded by repealing the Exclusion Act in 1943.
b
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