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A department of the U.S Government that offers a website with information about hate based violence in our country.
What is the United States Department of Justice
There were over 8,000 cases of this offense in 2019
What is hate based violence
Most famously known for her Montgomery bus boycott during the civil rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks
In 1997 this platform was first created.
What is Social Media
is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of their membership (or perceived membership) of a certain social group or race.
What is a hate crime?
A website that gives 10 different ways to fight against hate crime
What is the Southern Poverty Law Center
This bias is the largest category of hate based violence.
What is racial bias
An American Christian minister and leader during the civil rights movement in 1955.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
In the year 2007 this first case of online bullying was documented.
What is cyberbullying?
During what war, was the first hate crime laws passed with the Civil Rights Acts of 1871.
What is The American Civil War.
A website that helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights
What is witness.org
This weapon is most commonly used in racial hate based attacks
What is a firearm
A famous gay liberation activist, self identified drag queen, and an a prominent figure in Stonewall Uprising of 1969.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson
The movie that was based on a true story about cyberbullying was called.
What is “Cyberbully”
What is another term for a hate crime?
What is a bias-motivated crime?
At URI there is the office of “Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity” what is one are this office focuses on?
What is Discrimination
This religion is the most commonly attacked by hate based offenders
What is Judaism
A young Pakastani activist who spoke out against the prohibition on the education of girls by Pakastani Taliban.
Who is Malala Yousafzai
500 years ago, this was a term of endearment containing a positive or encouraging message.
What is a bully
These are at least three protected groups that are typically included under the hate crime legislation.
What is race, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion.
A website that calls for improvement in hate crime reporting with the slogan “Fight hate for good”
What is Anti-defination
This organization defines hate crime as the following; “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.”
What is the FBI
Founder of the first American gay students organization and first individual to fight a discharge against the U.S Military for homosexualty.
Who is Stephen Donaldson
There are several Federal Hate Crime Laws, each created after 1968 following this famous act.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968
Hate on its own is not a crime. Thus this term is constitutionally protected.
What is hate speech?