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Civil Rights
Dr. Campbell
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| defiance | the act of refusing to obey someone or some organization |
| discrimination | prejudice or unjust behavior to others based on differences in age, race, gender, and so on |
| oppression | act of treating people in a cruel and unjust way |
| segregation | act or practice of keeping people or groups apart |
| sharecropper | a farmer who gives a share of the crop to the landowner |
| tactics | plans or methods to win a game or battle or achieve a goal |
| appeal | to ask for a decision made by a court of law to be changed |
| boycott | to refuse to buy something or to take part in something as a way of protesting |
| harass | to pester or annoy someone |
| integrate | to include people of all races |
| provoke | to annoy someone and make the person angry |
| retaliate | to do something unpleasant to someone because the person has done something unpleasant to you |
| segregate | to keep people or things apart from the main group |
| violate | to break a promise, a rule, or a law |
| restrictive | confining or keeping within the limits |
| trivial | not very important |
| unconstitutional | not in keeping with the basic principles or laws set forth in the constitution of a state or country, especially the Constitution of the United States |
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