Prior to the civil rights movement, the main reason that schools in the North were segregated was that
A)most African Americans had little choice but to live in all-black neighborhoods.
B)federal laws mandated segregated schools throughout the country.
C)because both white and black parents preferred to keep their children with those "of their own kind."
D)few African Americans lived in cities.

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The primary reason schools in the North were segregated before the civil rights movement was due to housing patterns and segregation, which resulted in African Americans living in predominantly black neighborhoods. This was not due to federal laws mandating segregation (as was the case in the South with Jim Crow laws) but rather because of systemic racism and economic factors that limited where African Americans could live.

Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, the Main Reason That