poetic vocab
This term refers to a collection of memories written about important moments and events in a person’s life
Memoir
an example of this is a sit in
nonviolent resistance
February 12, 1963
Jacqueline Woodson's birthday
To set free
emancipation
The name of the group of people who rode the busses from the northern states to the southern states
The Freedom Riders
the pattern of sound set by syllables in a line of poetry
rhythm
The relocating of approximately six million African Americans from the racially oppressive South to Northern and Western cities
The Great Migration
Columbus Ohio
where she was born
Bring to mind strong memories
Evocative
The city where the church bombing happened
Birmingham Al.
This term refers to the line of people in a family’s past
ancestory
The practice of requiring seperate housing, bussing, education and other services for people based on race
Segregation
The place Hope, Del and Jackie spend their early childhood after their parents divorce
Greenville, South Carolina
something given or handed down from one generation to the next
legacy
The person who felt using non violent protests and marches peacefully was the best way to make change
Dr. Martin Luther King
nonviolent resistance
A movement wiithin the civil rights movement focused on Black pride and self-defense
Black Power Movement
Jackie's time of birth is unknown. 3 people have different recollections of the day. That is because memories are this.
Unreliable
To remember past events with pleasure
reminisce
The person who felt that change is needed at any cost
Malcolm X
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of line or stanzas
anaphora
The struggle for social justice, beginning in the 1950s, in which activists fought for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law
The civil rights movement
The name of their newest sibling
Roman
support that keeps something alive or existing
sustenance
How old was Ruby Bridges trying to go to school as the first black student
6