During the post-war years, racial segregation in northern schools existed mainly because of unequal funding of urban and rural school districts laws requiring such separation of the races resistance to the supreme court's "plessy v. ferguson" ruling the racial make-up of neighborhoods

During the post-war years, racial segregation in northern schools existed mainly because of school districts laws requiring such separation of the races

Explanation:

The major reason was that schools had laws that prevented them to coexist in the same areas. There were schools for afro-Americans and there were schools for Caucasians. There were also public places that afro-Americans couldn't visit because there was so much omission of the "Plessy v. Ferguson" that they started to discriminate afro-Americans. The Plessy v. Ferguson required similar spaces for both. However, it was never executed, until schools started to go against it.

a) the colonists began to see themselves as different from people in britain.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do