Question

What piece of legislation allowed many states to practice racial segregation? a. brown v. board of education b. the separate but equal mandate c. the emancipation proclamation d. the civil rights act

Answer 1

b, the separate but equal mandate said that separate accommodations for separate races was allowed if the accommodations were equal even though the very basis of separation made them intuitively unequal

Answer 2

b. The separate but equal mandate

Step-by-step explanation:

The "separate but equal" mandate was legislation that allowed and promoted racial segregation on the United States, especially in the Southern states, on the basis that the facilities, services, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation provided to each race were equal, and therefore the mandate did not violate the right of equal protection of the laws to all people guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In reality, however, segregated facilities of African Americans were rarely equal to those of white Americans.