[ 601 ] U.S. History GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW _____________ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Use the excerpt below, from the U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954), to answer the following question. Where a State has undertaken to provide an opportunity for an education in its public schools, such an opportunity is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. . . . Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other “tangible” factors may be equal. . . . The legal doctrine struck down by the decision in Brown v. the Board of Education was the a. separate but equal doctrine b. right to be made available doctrine c. physical and tangible doctrine d. public school or minority group doctrine