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22 Cards in this Set
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Segregation
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to seperate a group of people by race, from a larger group
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Ku Klux Klan
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A white supremacist group in the south that used terror and violence to silence those in favor of desegregation
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Boycott
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to refuse to use or buy the goods or services of a company
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Civil Rights
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Rights given to a US citizen protected by the constitution
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Tolerance
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to recognize and respect the ideas and beliefs of others who are different from you.
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Compromise
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an agreement that is made by each side giving up something that it wants
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Integrate
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to have a mix of all ethnic groups and races
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Discriminate
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to treat differently because of race, religion, or gender
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Lynching
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to hang by mob action for a supposed crime
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Non- Violence
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The peaceful refusal to obey unjust laws
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Reconciliation
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to reestablish a close relationship between two parties
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NAACP
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An organization founded in 1910 dedicated to winning equal rights for all
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Black Power
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A movement among African Americans beginning in the 1960's emphasizing racial pride
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Casualty
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A death or injury
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Ordinance
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a law
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Protest
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an objection to a law or idea
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Riot
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a noisy violent disturbance caused by a group of people rejecting a law or other group of people in the streets
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Mob
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a rowdy violent group out to break the law
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March
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an organized walk for standing up in what you believe in
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Freedom riders
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civil rights activists that rode buses into the segregated south to test the supreme court decision of Boynton vs Virginia and the law that outlawed segregated buses on interstate level
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Jim Crow Laws
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state and local laws that established racial barriers in almost every aspect of life
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Sit-in
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a protest demonstration in which participants sit themselves in an appropriate place and refuse to move until their demands are met
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