What is the primary significance of the brown v board of education of topeka supreme court decision of 1954?
a) it sparked years of nonviolent civil rights demonstrations in the south.
b) it ruled that segregation in public schools violated the fourteenth amendment.
c) it launched the career of thurgood marshall, who became a supreme court justice.
d) it resulted in a federal court order to desegregate little rock, arkansas’ central high school.

Which of the following statements about the fugitive slave act of 1850 is not accurate. a. marshals who refused to arrest a suspected fugitive could be fined $1,000. b. slave owners had to present evidence that an african american in the north was a fugitive slave. c. any person who provided food or shelter to a fugitive slave could be find $1000 and placed in jail for six months. d. it required all federal marshals to arrest any african-american suspected of being a runaway slave.