AMLW Vocab. List #1

strength, endurance, and patience in the face of pain or adversity

• memoir

• fortitude

• disparity

• assimilation

a nonfiction narrative composed from personal experience

• medium

• memoir

• integration

• NAACP

a particular form or system of communication (such as newspapers, radio, or television)

• integration

• disparity

• assimilation

• medium

laws that enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools, transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. They also made it difficult for black people to vote.

• Jim Crow Laws

• 14th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

the 'point of view' from which the creator of a source described historical events

• fortitude

• medium

• disparity

• perspective

a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity

• disparity

• desegregation

• assimilation

• Jim Crow Laws

The United States Supreme Court case where the court unanimously declared that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional (separate is not equal)

• Jim Crow Laws

• 14th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

The United States Supreme Court case that ruled segregation was legal, as long as equal facilities were provided for both races (separate but equal)

• Jim Crow Laws

• 14th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country. This included African Americans and slaves who had been freed after the American Civil War.

• Jim Crow Laws

• 14th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society

• Assimilation

• Segregation

• Discrimination

• Disparity