Prior to the civil rights movement, the main reason that schools in the North were segregated was that
a. most African Americans had to live in all-black neighborhoods.
b. federal laws mandated segregated schools throughout the country.
c. because both white and black parents preferred to keep their children with those "of their own kind."
d. few African Americans lived in cities.
(Answer: a)
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