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Which statement best describes the passage?
Read the passage from the opinion of the court in
Brown v. Board of Education, written by Justice
Warren
Minors of the Negro race, through their legal
representatives, seek the aid of the courts in
obtaining admission to the public schools of their
community on a nonsegregated basis. In each
instance, they had been denied admission to
schools attended by white children under laws
requiring or permitting segregation according to
race. This segregation was alleged to deprive the
plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under
the Fourteenth Amendment. In each of the cases
other than the Delaware case, a three-judge federal
district court denied relief to the plaintiffs on the so-
called "separate but equal" doctrine announced by
this Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537
Under that doctrine, equality of treatment is
O Warren explains the students' position, then
describes how it has been previously handled by
the courts
O Warren provides reasons why segregation is
permissible, then offers evidence to support the
reasons
O Warren claims that the students don't have
grounds to sue, then gives reasons why not.
O Warren gives a history of segregation in America,
then explains how the students fit into that history,
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