Reading vocab

Question 1

But moses was no _____.

Answer 1

Outlier

Question 2

While the court would eventually come to reject the “separate but equal” doctrine ____ by the case starting in the 1950’s.

Answer 2

Enshrined

Question 3

says that historically, urban planners followed the path of least resistance.And because minority communities were already ______,

Answer 3

disenfranchised

Question 4

He calls the dynamic at play “highway robbery,” wherein minorities pay taxes at the same rates as white Americans, but those dollars then ____ racist patterns of development.

Answer 4

Subsidize

Question 5

COVID-19, and several studies have linked African-Americans’ high ________ of asthma to environmental pollution.

Answer 5

Prevalence

Question 6

At a time when statues of American historical figures who owned slaves or __________ colonialism are tumbling across the country,

Answer 6

Perpetuated

Question 7

_______ the belief that black people were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to white people

Answer 7

buttressed

Question 8

The Jim Crow laws and system of etiquette were _______ by violence, real and threatened.

Answer 8

undergirded

Question 9

The Jim Crow system was _____ by the following beliefs or rationalizations

Answer 9

undergirded

Question 10

White people could physically beat black people with ____.

Answer 10

impunity

Question 11

This was a ___

Answer 11

ruse