question 12 (3.33 points)
what was the purpose of the series of conferences president hoover conducted in
1930 in response to the economy? ||
o to inform the american public about how the government was handling the
crisis
o to discuss social improvement projects with members of congress
oto force companies to rehire the workers they had laid off
to convince business leaders to retain workers and maintain wages

thurgood marshall

explanation: in 1954, thurgood marshall and a team of naacp attorneys won brown v. board of education of topeka, kansas. in this landmark decision, the supreme court held that segregation in public education violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.

the main reason that the constitution did not proclaim all men to be free and equal is because of the issue of slavery.

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.