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Unit 1: Topic 2
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Term | Definition |
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Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) | Public and private institutions established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States. |
Pretensions | A claim or assertion of a claim to something. |
Subterfuge | Deceit used in order to achieve one's goal. |
Blasphemy | The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk. |
Endow | Provide with a quality, ability, or asset. |
Atlanta Riots of 1906 | Violent attacks by armed mobs of White Americans against African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Sharecropping | A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. |
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | The name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. |
White Supremacy | The belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups. |
Lynching | Kill, especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. |