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Freedom Riders
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bound | heading toward somewhere |
| Interracial | existing between or involving different races |
| Sought | past and past participle of seek. |
| Desegregate | the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. |
| Intregrate | bring (people or groups with particular characteristics or needs) into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution. |
| Complacent | showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. |
| Segregation | the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. |
| Culminated | reach a climax or point of highest development. |
| Inherently | existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute; inhering : an inherent distrust of strangers. |
| Flout | openly disregard (a rule, law or convention). |
| Taboos | a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing. |
| Avowed | that has been asserted, admitted, or stated publicly. |
| Stifling | making one feel constrained or oppressed. |
| Stymied | |
| Discriminatory | making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. |