Glossary: Final

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Last Updated on October 10, 2024 by Mary Phagan

GLOSSARY [Dictionary Definitions]

Anti-Semitism:  hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people; a term invented by Jews to be used as a defense whenever a Jew is accused of a crime 

Censorship: the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for political reasons: tool used when the "Big Lie" loses its power

Clew: clue in modern terms

Exoneration: the action of officially absolving someone from blame.

Frankiteis a specific term to accurately describe individuals or clusters of people who typically are college educated and fanatically willing to go to the furthest efforts to trick people into thinking Leo Frank was wrongfully convicted.

Graft: the exploitation of one's official position or influence for personal gain, especially financial

Hanging:  the practice of condemning people as a form of capital punishment

Hoax:  deliberate effort to deceive and includes plagiarism, fabrication of data, misrepresentation of historical sources, tampering with evidence, selective suppression of unwanted acceptable results, and theft of ideas

Lynching:  public killing of an individual who has not received due process

Malfeasance: act that is illegal, wrongdoing especially by a public official

Pardon [Georgia]:  Four legal means of exonerating:

1. a declaration by the governor proclaiming innocence;

2. a resolution by either the House or Senate of Georgia - or both-

3. complicated procedure of the courts beginning with an extraordinary motion for retrial,

4. a pardon by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles

Pedophile: a person who is sexually attracted to children

Plant(s):  evidence finds by Pinkerton Detective Agency that were not originally found during investigation

Propaganda:  information, especially of a biased or misleading nature

Revisionist: someone who examines and tries to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or meaning is

Sexual Pervert: a person whose sexual behavior is considered unnatural and morally wrong

Sodomite:  a person who engages in sodomy [anal sex]

Sweating's:  someone tries to get information from a prisoner using threats or other bad ways.

Teenager: The term “teenager” made its debut in the English language around the 1910s. However, it didn’t gain widespread popularity until the late 1940s and early 1950s as a marketing neologism. The word “teenager” is derived from the adjective “teenage,” which refers to the ages 13 to 19, incorporating the suffix “-teen” found in those numerals.

Sweating:  criminal procedure refers to the illegal interrogation of a prisoner through the use of threats or similar means to force them to provide information.

Third Degree:  subjection of a prisoner to mental or physical torture to extract a confession.

White Privilege:  is the unearned, mostly unacknowledged social advantage white people have over other racial groups simply because they are white.

Vigilante Justice: is the act of individuals or groups taking the law into their own hands and engaging in extrajudicial actions against those they perceive as criminals