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Black History
Black history terms and definition
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| slaves | people who are owned and forced to work by someone else |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice |
| prejudice | an opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts |
| civil rights | human rights |
| African American | A black American of African descent |
| justice | the administration of law |
| integration | the inclusion of people of all races on an equal basis into society |
| desegregation | the abolishment of racial segregation, which happened due to the work of Civil Rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| equality | having the same conditions and opportunities as everyone else |
| diversity | different people/culture |
| apartheid | the separation of black and white people in South Africa |
| racism | belief that one racial group is superior to another. A type of discrimination. |
| King Cotton | Cotton was the most valuable cash crop because of the invention of the cotton gin; rich new farmland appeared in the south, and the rise of textile manufacturing in England created a huge demand |
| Southern Society - how things were | IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER that most southern white adult males were small farmers and NOT VERY WEALTHY. Most families owned NO slaves. Nonetheless, a small minority of planters who owned 20 or more slaves dominated southern society. |
| 14th Ammendment | No state shall deny any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law |
| Sharecroppers | Most freedmen entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters; sharecropping and the crop lien system led to a cycle of debt and depression for southern tenant farmers; freedmen did NOT receive 40 acres each |
| Thirteenth Ammendment | Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude |
| Fifteenth Ammendment | Suffrage for black males |
| Booker T. Washington | He stressed importance of vocational education and economic self help; economic self-help and industrial education; He gave a speech in 1895, called on blacks to seek economic opportunities rather than political rights |
| Disenfranchising black voters | Literary tests and poll taxes denied blacks the ballot; |
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