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a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and entrepreneur.
was the movement of 5 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States.
a secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups.
war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.
consists of debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military .
destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
A Democratic party political leader of the twentieth century; he was president from 1961 to 1963.
a member of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights.
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws.
the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote .
sixteen battleship fleet that sailed on a world voyage from December 16, 1907 - February 22, 1909.
a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister.
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.
one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders.
An African-American educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who headed Tuskegee Institute, a college for African-Americans in Alabama.
a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863
The name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem.
A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam

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