The Supreme Court’s Ruling in Brown VS Board of Education PART B: Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A.“the Court expressly reserved decision on the question whether Plessy v. Ferguson should be held inapplicable to public education.” ( Paragraph 15)

B.“Negro and white schools involved have been equalized, or are being equalized, with respect to buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other ‘tangible’ factors.” ( Paragraph 16)

C.“We must look instead to the effect of segregation itself on public education.” ( Paragraph 16)

D.“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.” ( Paragraph 17)