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trolley park
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a amusment park that was built at the end of trolly lines
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Vaudeville
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an inexpencive show that first appeared in the 1870's it was comic sketches based on ethnic or racial humor,song-and-dance routines, ventrilloquists, jugglers and trappeze artists
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ragtime
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a kinf of music that originated from black musicians in south and midwest in 1880's
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Assimilation
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where people of one culture become part of another culture
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Philanthropists
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people who give donations to worthy causes.
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Booker T. Washington
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A african american college graduate. Founded the Tuskegee institute in alabama in 1881
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Tuskegee Institute
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founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington. it was like a college.
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Niagara Movement
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a group of african americans that called for full civial liberties an end to racial discrimination and recognition of human brotherhood.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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The first african american to earn a PHD from harvard. Helped found the niagara movement.
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Minstrel Shows
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Shows by white actors that made fun of african americans and exaggerated imitations of african american music, dance, and humor.
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