CLEP US History II

Answer: C - The U.S. Supreme Court decision for Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, et al. (1954) cited the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment when it struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine. The court’s opinion was that “separate but equal” inherently created inequality, thereby withholding certain things to which citizens should have access by right (e.g., equal education). The Equal Protection Clause stipulates that a citizen’s rights, as guaranteed by federal law, cannot be abridged by the state in which he or she resides.