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Which statement represents the key difference between the Court’s view of equal access in Plessy and its view in Regents?

The Court shifted from opposing legal segregation to supporting it.
The Court shifted from saying that segregation was legal to saying that any laws made based on race would be subject to careful judicial scrutiny.
The Court shifted from arguing that African Americans were entitled to legal protection to arguing that they were not.
The Court shifted from actively discouraging racial segregation to actively encouraging it.

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The second statement.

Plessy (1896) upheld "separate but equal" and treated segregation as legally permissible; by Regents (Bakke, 1978) the Court held that race-based classifications in law or policy are subject to careful (strict) judicial scrutiny and must be narrowly tailored to a compelling interest.