CLASS 10
NELSON MANDELA LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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road block in a path
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racism; segregation
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Segregation soon became official policy enforced by a series of Southern laws. Through so-called Jim Crow laws (named after a derogatory term for Blacks), legislators segregated everything from schools to residential areas to public parks to theaters to pools to cemeteries, asylums, jails and residential homes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Other examples of systems of oppression are sexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, ageism, and anti-Semitism.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, racism is: 1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Detailed explanation-4: -Segregation is the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender. Segregation implies the physical separation of people in everyday activities, in professional life, and in the exercise of civil rights.