Which best explains why Brown vs. Board of Education was an important legal decision?
Question 4 options:
The federal government forced States to end segregation in public schools conflicting with popular opinion in the South.
This had been legislation that Martin Luther King Jr had been pushing for with peaceful protest proving that the Civil Rights Movement was successful.
The case determined that the Federal Government does not have the power to overturn State's Rights on education.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of segregation making "separate but equal" education legal.