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Worker's compensation

is a form of gav. insurance for accidental death or injuries in the workplace.

Civil rights

are the basic rights of citizens, free speech & the right to vote, privacy, and property ownership.

Dixiecrats

a group that adopted the Confederate battle flag as the symbol of their resistance to civil rights for blacks & 'Dixie' as their song.

Separate-but-equal concept

allowed states to pass laws to segregate public facilities for blacks and whites.

Integration

the process of bringing different groups into society as equals.

White Citizen's Council

Robert Patterson founded, it distributed materials supporting segregation, organized political pressure, started a newspaper, and made radio & television broadcasts.

Interposition

placing the state's rights above those of federal government.

Sovereignty Commission

was designed to identify, watch, and defeat the enemies of segregation.

Sit-ins

demonstrations where people enter a public facility & refuse to leave.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

made it unlawful for anyone to discriminate on the basis of race if they served the public.

Pulpwood

Soft wood used in making paper.

Right to work law

law that allows workers to get & keep jobs without having to join a union.

Transfer payments

which are income payments for which no goods or services are exchanged.

loyalists

benefited from the work done by freedom Democratic Party and included such leaders, integrated group of misissipppians