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The social heritage and customs of an organized community,society or ethnic group.

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militias

Culture; American culture

Sanctioned—theoretically—by the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights, the militia movement in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has primarily attracted die-hard, ...

school boards

Culture; American culture

School boards govern the nation’s public and private schools. While each state has its own board of education for public schools, most educational decisions are handled at the ...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Culture; American culture

SCLC was founded in 1957, emerging out of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which had successfully orchestrated the bus boycott. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. as president, ...

scouts

Culture; American culture

Scouting programs are service and recreation organizations that nurture character development, respect, self-esteem and patriotism in young people. Both the Boy Scouts of America ...

catalogs

Culture; American culture

Sears Roebuck tells us one story As this emporium, incorporated in 1893, spread outward from Chicago, MI, its illustrated catalogs became a mass medium of consumption in rural ...

Speaker of the House

Culture; American culture

Second in line to the presidency after the vicepresident, the Speaker is chosen by the majority party in the House of Representatives. All the people who have held this position ...

high school

Culture; American culture

Secondary education generally constituted by 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades (corresponding roughly to ages 14–17). It is separated from elementary education by an intermediate ...