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Graduation Project Key Terms

1. Preservation- protection from harm: the guarding of something from danger, harm, or injury
2. Restoration- restoring of something to former condition: the restoring of something such as buildings or furniture to an earlier and usually better condition
3. YPA- Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh: is a non-profit, broad-based regional coalition of dynamic preservation leaders organized to ignite a new historic preservation movement in southwestern Pennsylvania and the active participation of young people in the preservation of historic resources.
4. PHLF- Pittsburgh History & Landmark Foundation:
5. PHMC- Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission:
6. Historic Site- is a location where pieces of history have been preserved, or that is of political or cultural significance. Historic sites are usually protected by law, and many have escalated to national historic site status
7. Abolition- was a political movement that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade.
8. Underground Railroad- was a network of secret routes and safe houses which African slaves in the 19th century United States used to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists. Other routes led to Mexico or overseas. At its height between 1810 and 1850, an estimated 30,000 to 100,000 people escaped enslavement via the Underground Railroad, though census figures only account for 6,000.
9. Great Migration- the movement of over 1 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1950 to escape racism in the South and to seek out better jobs and an overall better life in the North.
10. Hill District- is considered by many to be the cultural center of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay once called the district "the crossroads of the world," referring to the neighborhood's heyday in the 1930s-1950s. It is known to many Pittsburghers as simply "The Hill." It is bordered by the Downtown on the west, the Strip District and Polish Hill on the north, the Bluff (Uptown) on the southwest, and Oakland on the east and southeast.
11. Urban Renewal- is a process of land re-development in areas of prior moderately to high dense urban land use.