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| N.A.A.C.P. | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)… A civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the untied states. |
| Ku Klux Klan | a terrorist secret society organized in the South after the Civil War that used violence and murder to promote its white supremacist beliefs. |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that prevented African-Americans from going to the same schools and public places as white people. |
| “separate but equal” | under this doctrine services facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race…on the condition that the quality of each group's public facilities was to remain equal. |
| Brown vs Board of Education | was a ruling of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. |
| Integration | the process of opening a group - community - place - or organization to all…regardless of race – ethnicity – religion – gender - or social class |
| Segregation | the practice of keeping ethnic – racial – religious - or gender groups separate… especially by enforcing the use of separate schools – transportation – housing - and other facilities…. usually discriminating against a minority group |
| Racism | the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities and that some races are inherently superior or inferior |
| Civil rights | rights that all citizens of a society are supposed to have: e.g. the right to vote or to receive fair treatment from the law. |
| 14th Amendment | The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. |
