Collection 2: Texts About the 1963 March on Washington

As you compare Martin Luther King Jr's speech "I Have a Dream" and Charles Euchner's detailed account in "Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 9's Collection 2: texts about the 1963 March on Washington, Cairo: My City, Our Revolution, Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Censors
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  1. score
    a set of twenty
  2. emancipation
    freeing someone from the control of another
  3. proclamation
    a formal public statement
  4. promissory note
    a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
  5. default
    fail to pay up
  6. desolate
    crushed by grief
  7. degenerate
    grow worse
  8. inextricable
    incapable of being disentangled or untied
  9. redemptive
    bringing about salvation from sin
  10. nullification
    doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize a federal law
  11. cadence
    a recurrent rhythmical series
  12. bourgeois
    belonging to the middle class
  13. parallel
    something analogous to something else
  14. invocation
    the act of appealing for help
  15. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  16. civic
    of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals
  17. Tower of Babel
    (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
  18. Malcolm X
    militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
  19. revile
    spread negative information about
  20. expanse
    a wide and open space or area, as of land, sea, or sky
  21. separatist
    an advocate of secession or independence from a larger group
  22. jingoism
    an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions
  23. Mahalia Jackson
    United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music
  24. exhort
    spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  25. invoke
    cite as an authority
Created on Thu Jul 03 13:52:15 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Jul 04 11:35:50 EDT 2014)

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