In his arguments in Brown v. Board of Education , the lawyer for Oliver and Linda Brown claimed that “separate but equal” public schools were

The Browns’ lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, argued that segregated schools were unequal in practice, even when officials claimed they provided equal facilities. The phrase “separate but equal” therefore described schools that were separate but not truly equal. The correct choice is “separate but not truly equal.”

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