EDGE 2021 APUSH BRANLIEST Read the excerpt from author Walter Dean Myers about the significance of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.
In Brown vs. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall, Kenneth B. Clark, and the lawyers and social scientists, both black and white, who helped them had won for African Americans a victory that would bring them closer to full equality than they had ever been in North America. There would still be legal battles to be won, but the major struggle would be in the hearts and minds of people and ‘in that gap between law and custom.’
–Walter Dean Myers,
The African American Struggle for Freedom
Following the Brown decision in 1954, which of these would Walter Dean Myers have considered to be a legal battle "to be won”?
overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine
desegregating the armed forces
guaranteeing the voting rights of all citizens
ending job discrimination in federal hiring

C

Explanation:

APUSH AP Practice Exam II on quizlet

1. ford: gerald ford´s presidency, from 1974 to 1977, faced high inflation, named it public enemy nº1, and created the win program (whip inflation now).

2. carter: president from 1977 to 1981, carter had controversial poitions over abortion, but yet, he enforce the roe vs wade decision, which had pro-choice content.

3. reagan. for his eloquency and powerful speeches in his mandates, from 1981 to 1989, reagan earned this nickname, “the great communicator” .

4. george h w bush: despite many presidents had important roles in managing and trying to end the cold war, it was in bush sr's mandate that the berlin wall was materially destroyed, and he was visited by gorbachev in the uspresident from 1989 to 1993.

5. clinton: defense of marriage act. clinton signed this controvesial act, which defined marriage and spouses in strict heterosexual perspective, that was later declard unconstitutional by the us supreme court.

6. george w bush: in the begining of his presidency, which lasted until 2009, bush jr faced the greatest terrorist attacks in us and probably the worlds history, in september, 11 of 2001.

7. obama: in attempts to cease a great economical crisis, barack obama signed the controversial recovery act in february 2009, which handled 780-billion dollars.