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Civil Rights Movement |
The collection of organizations and people who carried out political acts aimed at abolishing racial segregation, non-white disenfranchisement, and racial economic exploration |
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Claudette Colvin |
March 2 1955 she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Inspired Rosa Parks 9 months later. |
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Emmet Till |
14 year old who was killed in August 1955, after reportedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Death and open casket funeral acted as a catalyst for the civil rights movement. She fabricated the story. |
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Sit-ins |
Reinvigorated the civil rights movement by demonstrating the power of student led demonstrations and by drawing many college students into the fray |
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Literacy Test |
A method used to disenfranchise black voters throughout the south |
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Ethnic Enclave |
A semiautonomous economy, large or small, that is owned operated and managed by members of the same immigrant or ethnic group |
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Immigrant and nationality act |
1965 abolished national origin quotas for immigrants |
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Occupational segregation |
Jobs segregated by race ethnicity or gender |
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Reaganomics |
Doctrine of supply side (trickle down) economics espoused by Ronald Reagan |
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Underground economy |
The combined forms of enterprise classified as criminal under current law |
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White flight |
A migratory processes whereby many whites, fearing racial integration, sold their houses in the city and moved to the suburbs |
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De facto segregation |
Segregation that results from residential patterns.. redlining |
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Eminent domain |
Law that gives the government the right to take public property for private use |
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Environmental racism |
Any environmental policy, practice, or directive that disproportionately disadvantages non white communities |
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Sundown towns |
Communities from which non-whites were systematically excluded from living or being in after dark |
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Deterrent effect |
The argument that prisons function as a strong deterrent for would be criminals |
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Differential justice |
Whites are dealt with more leniently than blacks across the criminal justice system. Law is a public social institution that reproduces inequality experienced in life |
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Fear of crime |
Americans fear of crime is strongly connected to their racial identity, racial attitudes, and the racial makeup of their neighborhood |
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Mass incarceration |
The prison boom after the racial imbalance of America's prison population and the social mechanisms that help account for this gross discrepancy |
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White collar crime |
Illegal acts committed by more privileged members of society, often technological crimes, fraud hacking tax evasion embezzling... |
