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English Vocab
English Vocabulary 1
Term | Definition |
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Civil Rights | |
Segregation | |
Integration | The bringing together of racial groups, the acceptance as equals into society |
freedom | liberty or independence |
justice | the quality or state of being the same |
slavery | to be fair |
Abolitionists | the practice of owning someone that can be sold at an action (people= Property) |
Underground Railroad | a system of cooperation in the US before 1863 by which slaves were secretly helped out and lead to freedom in the north and Canada |
Boycott | refusing to do something usually to express disapproval toward a person, organization, in country |
Sit-Ins | |
Freedom Riders | people who traveled by bus to protest the unequal treatment of people on transportation |
Jim Crow | |
granted citizenship, prohibiting the states to forbid basic rights of citizens. Blacks used the amendment to help them win freedom. | |
bigotry |