Freak the Mighty Unit
Oppression
Eric Power
All Play
African American Legends
100

The name of Freak's beautiful mother. 

The Fair Gwen

100

Gives permission and reinforcement for individual members of the dominant group to personally disrespect or mistreat individuals in the oppressed group.

Interpersonal Oppression

100

Using violence to get others to do what that you want them to do

Physical Force

100

This woman was nominated to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate in August 2009 by a vote of 68–31.

Sonia Sotomayor

100

The first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm

200

In the beginning of the novel, Max had a really low______ believing he was a "goon", "dumb" and "stupid". Also, Carl Rogers points out that his is how you see your self. 

Self Image

200

The ultimate goal of oppression is to cause an individual to

Internalized Oppression

200

Vocal mass of people use this type of power to protest in large groups and bring about change. 

The Power of Numbers

200

The way in which Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr fought to over come oppression. 

Strategy in the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

200

A group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957.Their attendance helped desegregrate schools in Arkansas. 

The Little Rock Nine

300

The syndrome both Freak and Dane had to learn to live with. 

Morquio syndrome

300

The idea that one group is better than another group and has the right to control the other gets embedded in the institutions of the society--the laws, the legal system and police practice, the education system and schools, hiring policies, public policies, housing development, media images, political power, etc

Institutional Oppression

300
This type of power changes the way people think about something, for example marriage. 

The Power of Ideas

300

Give one example of Dane lived with a disability and was able to make progress. 

Modifications to his home, desk, car

300

She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.

Mae Carol Jemison

400

Daily Double 1 *Psychologist Carl Rogers explains this is the way you feel about yourself or your self-worth. 

Self Esteem 

400

The idea that one group is somehow better than another, and in some measure has the right to control the other group.

Ideological Oppression

400

When you bribe someone to do what you want them to do you are using the power of 

Money 

400

The year Henrietta Lacks had her HeLa cells removed and by whom?

Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. George Gey  removed her cells in 1951

400

This icon refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Parks

500

The type or types of character conflict Max had to overcome as he battled his father. 

Man vs. Man and Man vs. Self

500

A equation of racism, as a system, is:

PREJUDICE + POWER=RACISM

500

Racial Equality 

Idea

500

*What prominent organization did these Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form in 1869?

Anthony and Stanton co-founded the American Equal Rights Association. In 1868 they became editors of the Association's newspaper, The Revolution, which helped to spread the ideas of equality and rights for women.

500

The founders of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi