Civil Rights Vocabulary

This made voting easier for African Americans.

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Act of 1965

• Sit-in

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

This court case created the phrase "separate but equal."

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Parks v. Recreation

This person led the Civil Rights movement with peaceful protests.

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

• Abraham Lincoln

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brown v. Board of Education was a decision by the Supreme Court that said...

• Segregation in schools was unconstitutional

• Segregation was legal as long as they were "separate but equal"

• Black and white children could go to the same school but had to be in different classes

• Black students had to use a separate bathroom

This person refused to give their seat to a white person on the bus.

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Mahatma Gandhi

This made it illegal to discriminate in the workplace.

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Act

• Equal Rights Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

To peacefully protest by refusing to leave a place.

• March

• Riot

• Sit-In

• Dance off

This person believed in using any means necessary, including violence, to get equal rights.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Darth Vader

• Malcolm X

To stop supporting a business or country in protest.

• Boycott

• Sit-in

• Refusal

• Civil Right

Ended segregation in public places

• Voting Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Civil Rights Act

• Black Tuesday