In approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the Amendment
was adopted, or even to 1896, when Plessy v.
Ferguson was written. We must consider
public education in the light of its full
development and its present place in
American life throughout the Nation. Only in
this way can it be determined if segregation
in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of
the equal protection of the laws.
-Brown v. Board of Education,
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Why did the court choose not to turn the clock
back to 1868" when considering the issue of
segregation in public schools?
The court disagreed with the Plessy v.
Ferguson decision.
The court wanted to repeal the Fourteenth
Amendment
The court recognized the value of an
education to a child's success.
The court determined that past plaintiffs had
not been deprived of equal protection
DONE

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,