True. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigrants from predominantly Catholic countries faced open discrimination at the<span>hands of the American-born white Protestant majority</span>
Well during the war the blacks fought along side of the whites and it showed the people back at home that it really wasn't that bad to be equal. However the people in the south will remain racist and try to keep segregation within the law. <span />
The women getting all prettied up in iron jawed angels because it talks about the years of the suffrage of women especially in the time of 1910s.
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The movie Iron Jawed Angels is an America movie which is a historical drama in the United States. It talks about the movement of women suffrage beginning in the 1912 and ended up in 1920 when the women got them selves to right to vote and thus increased their status in the society. Because of the movement started by the women, many women were arrested also for the actions that they took for their own rights.
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D. overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling accepting segregated facilities.
Explanation:
<u><em>What is the Brown v. Board of Education case about (1954)?</em></u>
The US Supreme Court decided that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional (forbidden by the law), because it violated the 14th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause it contains. Until then, children from racial minorities had to go to schools that were separate from the schools where white children went.
In this context, 13 parents from Topeka, Kansas, sued the Topeka Board of Education for their 20 children who were segregated in schools on racial grounds. The case went up to the Supreme Court and they won.
<u><em>What is the Plessy v. Ferguson case about (1896)?</em></u>
In this case with similar facts, the US Supreme Court had ruled that racial segregation in schools <u>that had equal facilities, accommodations and services was legal </u>(<em>"separate but equal"</em>), a decision which supported racist views and a defeat for the the Civil Rights Movement.
<u>However, Brown v. Board of Education overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling and it paved the way for ending racial segregation and justice for the racial minorities, especially in school. </u>
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