Amends, Make Amends - to do something for somebody in order to show that you are sorry for something wrong or unfair that you have done
Epithets - An epithet is an adjective or short phrase which is used as a way of criticizing or praising someone.
"She (Phoebe Kilby) was coming back to say, 'What can I do to make amends?' " Betty recalls. "The last thing we had thought about was a [white] Kilby wanting to make amends."
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By September 1959, about 500 white students had returned to school. That's when it got really ugly. Daily, the black students were pelted by spitballs. Racial epithets were hurled. Some would sniff and hold their nose up in the air "as if I stank," Betty says.
Source - http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/20/slavery.descendants.meet/index.html?hpt=C1
Dictionary - http://www.google.com/dictionary?sl=en&tl=en&q=amends
http://www.google.com/dictionary?sl=en&tl=en&q=epithets
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