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Ruby Bridges
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- 1DesegregationActively ending the separation of people into different public areas.
- 2SegregationThe separation of people into different public areas because of their race, class, or ethnic group.
- 3IntegrationBringing people together in an area or group that was previously restricted to certain groups and providing all with equality.
- 4ToleranceAllowing behavior to take place, even if one does not agree with it.
- 5DiscriminationTreating one person or one group differently from others based on something other than value.
- 6BigotA person who refuses to accept a certain group or groups of people based on prejudice and may express intolerance, hate, fear, and/or anger as a result.
- 7Barricades
- 8MarshalsLaw enforcement officers
- 9Separate but EqualA legal term that allowed segregation, as long as both white and African American areas and services were equal.
- 10Civil DisobedienceThe act of refusing to obey laws in order to direct the government's attention to an issue and influence social change.
- 11SacrificeThe act of giving up one thing of value to receive something else of value.
- 12UnconstitutionalAgainst the rules and values of the legal foundation of a nation, such as the United States.
- 13BoycottRefusing to do or be a part of something in protest, often to influence change.
- 14Civil Rights MovementA national effort made by many Americans to obtain equal rights for African Americans in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s
- 15FederalPart of or related to the government.
- 16Jim Crow Laws
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- Ruby Bridges was a 6 year-old girl that was about to integrate into an all white school. Mobs of people protested integration and the whole year Ruby was ready to learn.
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