Civil Rights Movement (Humanities Intro. Vocab.)

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Civil Rights are...

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The rights (freedoms and entitlements) of citizens.

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The Civil Rights Movement was

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The national effort made by African Americans and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain the equal rights promised in the 14th and 15th Amendments.

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"The Affluent Society" refers to the period after WWII where Americans experienced increasing economic abundance and prosperity. Included growth of the middle class, creation and movement of peoples to suburbs, and increase of American production and consumption of consumer goods. True or False?

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True

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Segregation is...

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the separation of people by category, usually race.

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Laws that enforced segregation in the south. Goal was to "return" the south to pre-reconstruction (slavery) political and social norms.

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Jim Crow Laws

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the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people.

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Discrimination

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When did the Civil Rights Movement start?

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1950s