What do the following lines from Paragraph 4 reveal? The most common instance of this is connected with the establishment of
separate schools for white and colored children, which have been held to be a
valid exercise of the legislative power even by courts of states where the political
rights of the colored race have been longest and most earnestly enforced.
A. Even states with the greatest civil rights protections have decided that separate schools
are in the best interest of all.
B. Separate schools would not be possible if not for the fourteenth amendment.
C. In states where the rights of blacks have been protected the longest, the schools their
children attend are often superior to white schools.
D. Courts and legislatures do not have the power to dictate to schools which students are
allowed to attend them.