CIVIL RIGHTS VOCABULARY

BOYCOTT

NON VIOLENCE

PROTEST

DEMONSTRATION

RUBY BRIDGES

​Ruby Bridges loved school. In 1960 she was excited to go to first grade in New Orleans, Louisiana. But many people did not want her to go to her school. They wanted only white children to go there, and Ruby is Black. Ruby did not let that stop her. She continued to go to school every day, and her bravery played an important part in the civil rights movement.

ROSA PARKS

​Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist. By refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, she helped spark the American civil rights movement. Her action led to a successful protest action—the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955–56. Parks became a symbol of the power of nonviolent protest.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

​Martin Luther King, Jr., led the civil rights movement in the United States. He used nonviolent, or peaceful, protest to try to get equal rights for African Americans. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

SEGREGATE

CIVIL RIGHT

INTEGRATION