Which of the following encouraged the NAACP to become involved with Reverend Oliver Brown’s lawsuit against a board of education in Kansas?

The NAACP’s legal strategy against school segregation gained momentum after the Supreme Court’s 1950 decision in Sweatt v. Painter. The ruling found that a separate law school for Black students was not equal to the University of Texas law school, strengthening the case against segregation in education. That decision encouraged the NAACP to pursue Brown’s lawsuit. Plessy v. Ferguson had upheld “separate but equal,” rather than encouraging the challenge.

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