Why was the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education a major victory for the civil rights movement?
A. It ensured that African American students would receive a quality education in
schools with the same quality as those provided for white students.
B. It rejected the doctrine of "separate but equal" and declared that public schools could
not be segregated on the basis of race.
C. It ordered local governments to bus children to schools outside their neighborhoods
to achieve greater racial integration.
D. It upheld the doctrine established by the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v.
Ferguson that permitted laws segregating African Americans .