Civil Rights and Conservatism Vocabulary.HallsvilleJH

To include people of all races.

• Integrate

• Boycott

• Libel

• Protest

A form of action in favor of a cause that involves marches, boycotts, and possibly deliberately breaking the law to highlight opposition to that law.

• Nonviolent Protest

• Literacy Test

• Libel

• Integrate

To refuse to buy or use particular goods or services as a form of protest.

• Boycott

• Cold War

• Integrate

• Freedom Rides

A form of protests in which activists sit down inside or in front of a business, thus interfering with the businesses normal work.

• Sit In

• Libel

• Freedom Ride

• Literacy Test

Integrated bus rides that went through segregated areas in order to draw attention to Civil Rights.

• Freedom Rides

• Literacy Test

• Cold War

• Libel

An exam to show whether a person can read or write.

• Literacy Test

• Integrate

• Libel

• Boycott

The post WW II struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for power and influence; the struggle did not involve direct fighting between those two superpowers.

• Cold War

• Boycott

• Libel

• Integrate

The publishing of statements known to be false about someone in order to damage his or her reputation.

• Libel

• Integrate

• Boycott

• Freedom Rides