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"Imagine" Vocabulary
Vocab words from the article "Imagine This Was Your School"
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bigotry | a Bigot is a person who has strong and unreasonable dislike for a certain group or groups of people, especially people of a different race, nationality, or religion. Bigotry is the actions of a bigot. |
| boycott | (v) to join with others in refusing to deal with a person, organization, or country as a way of making a protest; (n) the process or an instance of boycotting |
| civil rights | the rights relating to citizens--the national effort made by African-Americans and their supporters in the 1950s and 60s for African-Americans to gain equal rights |
| desegregation | the elimination of segregation particularly, the use of law to end the practice of separating people of different races in schools, restaurants, and other public places |
| disparity | lack of similarity or equality; a great difference |
| equality | the quality, fact, or state of being equal |
| inequality | the state of being unequal |
| integration | the act or process of integrating, or combining several things or people into one whole, or the inclusion of people of all races. |
| racist | someone who thinks that a particular race is better than any or all others or treats people unfairly or cruelly because of their race |
| segregation | keeping groups of people within the same society apart. Segregation is often used to refer to the policy and practice of separating people of different races |
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