The cases sweatt v. painter and mclaurin v. oklahoma state regents expanded
employment rights.
voting rights.
the right to serve in the armed forces.
the right to equal education.

The right to equal education.

D. the right to equal education.

Explanation:

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts