Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall used all of the following tactics in the courts to "chip away" at segregation EXCEPT
A) force states to pay all teachers the same wage regardless of race.
B) demonstrate that schools were not providing equal accommodations for black and white students as required under Plessy v. Ferguson.
C) sue the federal government for its failure to force the states to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) make segregation as expensive as possible to the states by forcing them to live up to "separate but equal."
Answer: C
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