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This goes within an in-text citation.
What is the last name and page number?
This was a collection of laws that legalized racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This is the style in which memoirs are written.
Jackie Robinson's manager had this to say about the importance of his character and behavior.
What is his behavior was just as important as his skill?
This punctuation begins a list.
What is a colon?
This President administered The New Deal.
Who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt
This information goes in an in-text citation when no author or page number is available.
This is where many citizens moved to during the great migration.
What is the midwest, the north, and the west?
An autobiography is written about this part of the authors life.
What is their entire life?
The New Orleans Four were a group of Four African American girls that did this.
What is integrate schools?
This expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
These neighborhoods were outlined in red and were considered the “riskiest” for mortgages.
What is a "Type D" neighborhood?
This goes in an in-text citation with three or more authors
What is author last name, et...al and the page number?
This was the time period of the Harlem Renaissance.
What was the 1910's-1930's?
This is the section of life written in a memoir.
What is specific moments of the author's life?
This was the main reason why Emmett Till's parents wanted an open casket funeral for their son.
What is to show the dangerous results of violence and racism?
This is a word that typically comes before a noun or pronoun and establishes a relationship between that noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
This group of people would pay the lender unpaid balance if the homeowner cannot afford to pay.
What is the FHA?
This is where you will find the works cited page in an essay.
What is on a page at the end of your essay?
This type of music became very popular during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Jazz?
Memoirs can often be written using this style or technique.
What is poetic technique?
Freedom summer took place in what year?
What is 1964?
This is when two or more independent clauses are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunctions.
What is a run-on sentence?
This was a practice used by real estate agents and developers to convince White property owners to sell their homes at low prices by promoting fear that racial minorities are moving into the neighborhood.
What is blockbusting?
This is the main purpose of MLA formatting.
What is to ensure consistency and clarity in citing sources and formatting papers?
This was a main challenge of the Great Migration.
What are housing and job opportunities?
Memoirs chapters can often be broken up by these.
What are themes?
The key goals of freedom summer were to increase visibility, add education centers, and what?
What is ensure voting rights?
This connects closely related independent clauses.
These declarations (or promises) restricted the rights of minorities to move into white neighborhoods, essentially making segregation legal.
What is a racially restrictive covenant?