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Columb Family
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What is race?
people who are defined as similar because of a number of physical characteristics.
100
When did the Loving V. Virgina article take place?
Civil Rights Era or 1950-1970's.
100
When did the harassment begin?
early 1990s
200
What is Ethnic Group?
distinct cultural tradition that its own members identify with and that might or might not be recognized by others
200
What is the African-American woman's name?
Mildred Delores Loving
200
What was the colomb family framed for?
Framed for massive drug conspiracy
300
What is Prejudice?
negative, or occasionally positive, attitude toward certain groups and their members
300
What did the Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 do?
Made interracial marriage and interracial sexual relations criminal acts.
300
Where did it take place?
Church Point, Louisiana
400
What is Discrimination?
differential treatment, usually unequal and injurious, accorded to individuals who are assumed to belong to a particular category or group.
400
Where did the couple travel to, to get legally married?
Washington D.C
400
What triggered racial problems for the Colomb family?
When light skinned colomb boys were dating white girls.
500
What is Assimilation?
Process where groups with different cultures come to have a common culture.
500
What did the U.s Supreme court declare after sending the couple to jail and to leave the state for 25 years- Constitutional or Unconstitutional?
charges unconstitutional
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What did the Jury ultimately find in the local federal prison?
Someone had left a prosecutor's file about the Colomb case in a local federal prison proving they weren't at fault for the case.