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Freedom Riders
Term | Definition |
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Bound | heading toward somewhere |
Interracial | existing between or involving different races |
Sought | past and past participle of seek. |
Desegregate | the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. |
Intregrate | bring (people or groups with particular characteristics or needs) into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution. |
Complacent | showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. |
Segregation | the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. |
Culminated | reach a climax or point of highest development. |
Inherently | existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute; inhering : an inherent distrust of strangers. |
Flout | openly disregard (a rule, law or convention). |
Taboos | a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing. |
Avowed | that has been asserted, admitted, or stated publicly. |
Stifling | making one feel constrained or oppressed. |
Stymied | |
Discriminatory | making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. |