The Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights

• rights that countries guarantee their citizens

• a way of bringing change without using violence.

• led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He used nonviolent protests to try to get equal rights for African Americans.

• laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans.

Jim Crow Laws

• a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.

• the refusal to buy, sell, or use certain goods or services.

• laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans.

• the forced separation of the races.

Civil Rights Movement

• the forced separation of the races.

• a way of bringing change without using violence.

• a movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual African American citizens.

• the unfair treatment of particular groups.

Nonviolent protests

• a way of bringing change without using violence.

• the forced separation of the races.

• led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He used nonviolent protests to try to get equal rights for African Americans.

• rights that countries guarantee their citizens.

Discrimination

• any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a place.

• the unfair treatment of particular groups.

• the refusal to buy, sell, or use certain goods or services.

• a movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual African American citizens.

Nonviolent protests

• led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He used nonviolent protests to try to get equal rights for African Americans.

• laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans.

• the forced separation of the races.

• a way of bringing change without using violence.

Sit-in

• a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.

• any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises.

• rights that countries guarantee their citizens.

• laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans.

Boycott

• the refusal to buy, sell, or use certain goods or services.

• led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He used nonviolent protests to try to get equal rights for African Americans.

• the unfair treatment of particular groups.

• laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans.

Martin Luther King Jr.

• any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave premises.

• the forced separation of the races.

• rights that countries guarantee their citizens.

• led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He used nonviolent protests to try to get equal rights for African Americans.

“I Have a Dream” Speech

• the refusal to buy, sell, or use certain goods or services.

• a way of bringing change without using violence.

• the forced separation of the races.

• a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States.