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    Challenges→Racially segregated education severely impaired Negro children's capacity to develop into full democratic citizens

    If oppressive conditions categorically impaired citizenship capacity, no enslaved or Jim Crow-era Black American could have mounted the organized resistance that actually dismantled segregation—a self-undermining conclusion.

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    Categorically impaired(as used in logic and reasoning)
    Completely or totally damaged in a way that makes something impossible or unable to function.
    Citizenship capacity(as used in political philosophy)
    The ability to participate in civic life—like voting, organizing, and making decisions about government and society.
    Jim Crow era(as used in historical and political context)
    The period in American history (roughly 1877-1965) when laws in Southern states legally enforced racial segregation and discrimination against Black people.
    Oppressive conditions(as used in political philosophy and justice)
    Systematic unfair treatment or restrictions imposed on a group of people that limit their freedoms and rights.
    Organized resistance

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    (as used in history and political activism)
    A coordinated, planned effort by a group of people to oppose or fight against something they consider unjust.
    Self-undermining conclusion(as used in logical reasoning and philosophy)
    A conclusion that contradicts itself or defeats its own argument—if it were true, it would prove itself false.

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