To separate [African American children] from others. . . Solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority. . . That may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. . . . The impact is greater when it has the [approval] of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of [African Americans]. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. â€"Chief Justice Earl Warren Opinion of the Court Brown v. Board of Education What is the purpose of this passage? To provide legal support for segregation To note that segregation calls for the separation of races To defend the motives of those who favor segregation To assert that legal segregation is harmful to children.

To assert that legal segregation is harmful to children.

Explanation:

This purpose can be backed from the following lines from the excerpt:

Quote, "... their race generates a feeling of inferiority... for [because of] the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of African Americans".

To create artificial separation creates artificial rifts between what the students of different races may distinguish between the possible as well as that which they cannot achieve. In this, if there is a outwardly limiting factor that is not controlled by the student itself but by the state, it would create a societal boundary that would, quote, "affect the motivation of a [African American] child to learn".

"a government in which power is divided between state and national levels". federalism is a system of government in which entities such and state and province, share power with the national government.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.