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Academic Vocabulary Matrix

Term/Vocabulary Word / Textbook/Dictionary Definition / Rewrite (Your Own Words) / Draw a Picture
Black Panthers / The Black Panther Party achieved national and international impact through its deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in U.S. politics of the 1960s and 70s. The group's "provocative rhetoric, militant posture, and cultural and political flourishes permanently altered the contours of American Identity.
De Facto Segregation / segregation (especially in schools) that happens in fact although not required by law
De Jure Segregation / segregation that is imposed by law
Sit in / form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
Boycott / form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.
Term/Vocabulary Word / Textbook/Dictionary Definition / Rewrite (Your Own Words) / Rewrite (Your Own Words)
Feminism / aimed at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women.
Freedom Rider / civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregatedsouthern United States to test the United States Supreme CourtdecisionBoynton v. Virginia (of 1960) / .
Assimilation / socio-political response to demographic multi-ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture.
Affirmative Action / policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, to counter the effects of a history of discrimination. The focus of such policies ranges from employment and education to public contracting and health programs.
Little Rock 9 / students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch.
Civil Disobedience / active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Commonly defined as being nonviolent resistance.