What was the major social reason why the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?
A) Research showed that segregation taught African American children to accept their inferiority to whites.
B) African American students were taught by unqualified black teachers.
C) Segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) Black children had been kept apart from white children from a young age.

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Segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law.

What Was the Major Social Reason Why the Supreme Court