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Unit VII-African American His & Civil Rights
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10th Grade
04/07/2014

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Segregation
Definition
Action of setting someone apart from other people (Separation)
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Integration
Definition
Act of combining or creating something
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
Ethic discrimination against blacks by legal enforcement or traditional sanctions
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NAACP
Definition
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Renaissance
Definition
Activity, spirit, or time of revival for art, literature, & learning
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Sit ins
Definition
form of protests in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demand is met
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Suffrage
Definition
the right to vote
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Boycott
Definition
withdraw from commercial and social relations with as a punishment or protest
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Discrimination
Definition
the practice of discriminating categorically of race and or color
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Disenfranchisement
Definition
to deprive of a franchise. of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity
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Civil Obedience
Definition
refusal to obey governmental laws/rules
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Freedom Riders
Definition
one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses in the 1960's through the South to challenge racial segregation
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Lynching
Definition
to put to death, to hang by mob action & w/o legal authority
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KKK
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whites who targeted Blacks

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15th Amendment
Definition
Prohibits the federal & state governements from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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