What Is the Difference Between Relative Poverty and Absolute Poverty

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Essay

What is the difference between relative poverty and absolute poverty? Which is a more dangerous type of poverty? Why?

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Civil Rights

Civil rights are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality, often protected by law against discrimination or oppression.

Ida B Wells

An African American journalist, abolitionist, and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States during the 1890s.

Lynching

The illegal execution of an individual by a mob, often by hanging, without a legal trial, historically common in the United States as a form of racial terror against African Americans.

Memphis

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