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What is the 13th Amendment?
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, expect as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction”
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What is the School to Prison Pipeline
It is the disproportionate tendency of minors and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to become incarcerated, because of increasingly harsh school and municipal policies
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What is the late 20th Century?
The century when black students were allowed to enter historically “white” fraternities and sororities
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Who is Barack Obama?
The 44th US president!
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What is implicit bias?
This refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.
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What is Prison Industrial Complex?
“The overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social, and political problems,” (Critical Resistance).
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What is the “Zero-tolerance” policy?
“[This policy] requires school officials to and down specific, consistent, and harsh punishment—usually suspension or expulsion—when students break certain rules,” (Gjelten).
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What is Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs)?
Sororities and Fraternities for black men and women so that they could join greek life during segregation.
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Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
African American minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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What is Prison Gerrymandering
The phrase used to describe the process of using prisoners in order to make votes more powerful.
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What is “School Resource Officer”
The term used to describe a police officer working in a school
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While the white fraternities and sororities were socially focused, the first black fraternities introduced this as a principle.
What is “service to community”?
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Who is Rosa Parks?
Often called "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," she refused to give up her seat to a white male passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
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What is lynching?
In the south, people were blaming their financial problems on the newly freed slaves that lived around them. [answer] were becoming a popular way of resolving some of the anger that whites had in relation to the free blacks… The blacks [answer] accounted for 72.7% of the people [answer].
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What are Companies that Profit off Prison Labor?
Whole Foods, McDonalds, Target, IBM, Texas Instruments, Boeing, etc.
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What is 1 in 3?
The ratio of black men will be incarcerated in his lifetime.
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Who is Malcolm X?
Although he was once the face of the Nation of Islam, he later left the organization and renounced its teachings. After a life-changing pilgrimage to Mecca, he came home a new man with optimistic views on integration and a message of love for all.
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What is Jim Crow Laws?
state constitutional provisions mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains between white and Black people.
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What are companies that own prisons?
Corrections Corporation of America, the CEO Group Inc., Management and Training Corporation, Community Education Centers, etc.
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What is Counselor?
1.6 million(K-12 grade) students attended a school that employed a law enforcement officer but no ____.
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What is 1948?
The year the first “black” fraternity was founded so that black people could join Greek life.
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Who is Phillis Wheatley?
During a time when black people were discouraged from learning how to read and write, [name] , a Senegal/Gambia-born black girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, defied them all and published a book of poetry.
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What is minstrel shows?
The first [name] were performed in 1830s New York by white performers with blackened faces (most used burnt cork or shoe polish) and tattered clothing who imitated and mimicked enslaved Africans on Southern plantations. These performances characterized blacks as lazy, ignorant, superstitious, hypersexual, and prone to thievery and cowardice.
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