Shortly after World War II, the NAACP challenged the concept of separate but equal schooling in the courts. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that separate educational facilities are __________.
A. a matter on which the American public should vote
B. a matter for the states to decide
C. inherently equal
D. inherently unequal
Answer: D
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A. Crime exists in all societies. B. Crimes in some societies are not crimes in other societies. C. Crime is easy to define and study because it is simply those behaviors that are illegal. D. Many crimes go unreported or underreported in official statistics.
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a. historic experiment on the nature of obedience and authority b. senior seminar in psychology at Yale University c. study of memory and learning at Yale University d. experiment on the process of obedience