Thurgood Marshall's litigation of Brown v. Board of Education in 1952—the landmark case, decided in 1954, that made segregation illegal in United States public schools—was not his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court. ████ █████ ████████ █████ ████ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ██████ ███ ██████████ ████████ ███ █████████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████ █████████ ███████████ ██ ████ █████ ███████████ █████ ██ █████ ██████████ ███ █████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ ██████████████ ███████ ███████ █████████ ████ █████ ███ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ██████
Legal scholars' perspective ·Thurgood Marshall succeeded in Brown v. Board because of past litigation
Marshall had other cases in Supreme Court prior to Brown v. Board (which made segregation illegal in public schools).
Connection between Shelley and Brown ·Use of sociological data in Shelley helped court to accept same kind of data in Brown
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
6.
Which one of the following ██████ ████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ████████
Question Type
Main point
A title question is very similar to a main point question. What is the main point of the passage? The author focuses on describing the work of Marshall that lead up to his successful argument in Brown v. Board of Education. Let’s look for a title that captures this focus on the work leading up to this case.
This doesn’t capture the passage’s focus on Marshall’s work leading up to Brown.
b
"Thurgood Marshall: The ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ████████████
The passage isn’t focused on Marshall’s career. It’s focused on the work he did leading up to Brown. Although that work is a part of his career, it’s not the entirety of or even most of his career. For example, the passage doesn’t discuss his work after Brown.
This best captures the passage’s focus on Marshall’s work leading up to Brown. P2 and P3 describe Marshall’s legal strategy and cases that helped prepare the court to accept his argument against “separate but equal.”
d
"Separate but Not ██████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ██ █████ ██ █████████ ██ ██████ ████████████
The passage isn’t focused on the effects of the Brown decision. It’s focused on Marshall’s work leading up to Brown.
This is too narrow. Although there was a division in desired approaches for overturning “separate but equal,” this is the subject only of P2. (E) doesn’t capture the overall passage.
Difficulty
98% of people who answer get this correct
This is a low-difficulty question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%122
131
75%140
Analysis
Main point
Law
Single position
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
0%
154
b
1%
157
c
98%
166
d
1%
147
e
0%
128
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