In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that (A) busing to achieve racial balance in public schools was constitutionally acceptable (B) local school boards had no right to censor reading materials in school libraries (C) prayer in the public schools was contrary to the principle of separation of church and state (D) racial segregation in public schools was a denial of the equal protection of the laws (E) schools could teach the theory of evolution without also teaching the creationist account of the origin of life