Civil Right Vocabulary

Separating one group of people from another

• Segregation
• Jim Crow laws
• Boycott

A famous speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. 

• Jim Crow
• I Have a Dream
• Civil Rights Act

Prejudging someone based on their beliefs, values, religion, or race

• Segregation
• Prejudice
• Slavery

To protest by refusing to buy or use something

• Prejudice
• Racism
• Boycott

A law that ended segregation

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Jim Crow Laws

Unfair laws that made segregation legal

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Jim Crow laws

Freedoms and privileges that belong to you

• Racism
• Segregation
• Civil Rights

The practice of people owning other people and forcing them to work

• Segregation
• Slavery
• Racism

A belief by people of one race that they are better than people of another race

• Segregation
• Boycott
• Racism